NHS: Staff

(asked on 7th June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total cost to NHS hospitals was of using (a) agency staff and (b) bank staff in each year since 2010-11.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 12th June 2018

Comparable figures for agency expenditure are available from 2012-13 in the following table.

Year

£ million

2012-13

2,113

2013-14

2,589

2014-15

3,190

2015-16

3,635

2016-17

2,935

2017-18

2,407

Comparable figures for bank staff expenditure are available from 2015-16 in the following table.

Year

£ million

2015-16

1,768

2016-17

2,511

2017-18

2,935

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