NHS: Agency Workers
(asked on 15th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to cap NHS agency staff budgets, including for doctors and nurses.
This question was answered on 28th November 2022
In 2015, the Government introduced several measures to reduce agency spend, including price caps, procurement frameworks and expenditure ceilings. These measures have contributed to the reduction in National Health Service spending on agency staff from £3.6 billion in 2015/16 to £2.4 billion in 2020/21. In September 2022, NHS England re-established measures to control spending on agency staff, including a system expenditure limit.