Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust: Agency Nurses

(asked on 3rd February 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Tulip Siddiq Portrait
Tulip Siddiq
(Labour - Hampstead and Kilburn)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust's nursing cost is forecast to be spent on agency staff in 2015-16.

Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 8th February 2016

The information requested is not centrally held.

We understand that the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust's Board considered the issue of expenditure on agency nursing staff at its meeting on 17 January 2016. Papers for that meeting are available at the following link:

http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.royalfree.nhs.uk/Trust_board_papers/Trust_board_meeting_(public)_combined_27_Jan_2016.pdf

We are advised that Monitor wrote to the trust, confirming that by March 2016, agency nursing staff should not account for more than 9.8% of its total expenditure on nursing staff.

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