NHS: Staff
(asked on 13th April 2021) - 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 the NHS was of using (a) agency staff and (b) bank staff (i) for each quarter and (ii) in total for 2020-21.
This question was answered on 27th April 2021
The following table shows expenditure on agency and bank staff in National Health Service trusts for the first three quarters of the financial year 2020-21.
Agency staff | Bank staff | |
Quarter 1 | £537,442,477 | £987,839,313 |
Quarter 2 | £563,825,034 | £1,027,155,620 |
Quarter 3 | £625,646,943 | £1,172,794,134 |
Data for Quarter 4 will be available at the end of April 2021, therefore the total cost for 2020-21 is not yet available.