Nurses: Temporary Employment
(asked on 18th May 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of agency costs as a proportion of the total nursing costs in each NHS (a) trust and (b) foundation trust in 2015-16.
This question was answered on 23rd May 2016
The information requested is not currently available centrally. It could only be obtained from NHS Improvement at a disproportionate cost.
In November 2015, the Government introduced a series of tough financial controls to help the National Health Service tackle overspending on agency staff, including an hourly price cap.