Locums: Costs
(asked on 14th May 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what was the total cost to the NHS of employing locum doctors in England in each of the past five years for which data are available.
This question was answered on 30th May 2025
To date, NHS England has published reports to Quarter three of the 2024/25 financial year. The following table shows the total cost to the National Health Service of employing locum doctors in England in each of the past five years, up until Quarter three of the 2024/25:
Year | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
Total | £919,000,000 | £1,012,000,000 | £1,140,000,000 | £1,133,000,000 | £950,000,000 |
Source: Provider Finance Returns.