Health Professions: Temporary Employment

(asked on 6th November 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of increased use of temporary doctors and nurses on the (a) quality of the healthcare provision and (b) cost of that provision.


Answered by
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Ben Gummer
This question was answered on 11th November 2015

No formal assessment has been made by the Department on the specific effect of increases in the use of temporary doctors and nurses on the quality of healthcare provision. The Care Quality Commission is responsible for the quality of healthcare services provided overall.


No formal assessment has been made by the Department on the net effect of increases in the use of temporary doctors and nurses on the costs of providing services.

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