Locums
(asked on 2nd September 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 the cost to the public purse of agency locums in each year from 2011-12 to 2015-16.
This question was answered on 12th September 2016
Last year 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. NHS Improvement has confirmed that the NHS saved £300 million in 2015-16, with further savings forecast.
The information requested on costs of agency locums is not held centrally.