Agency Nurses
(asked on 23rd June 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much (a) NHS England and (b) London North West Healthcare NHS Trust spent on agency nurses in the last two financial years.
This question was answered on 1st July 2015
NHS England is a commissioning organisation and does not hold budgets for agency nursing staff. Spending on agency nursing staff is incurred by specific provider organisations.
In 2013/14 London North West Healthcare NHS Trust spent approximately £16 million on agency nurses and in 2014/15 spent approximately £25 million.