Agency Nurses
(asked on 27th June 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many registered nurses are working solely through bank or agency arrangements.
This question was answered on 5th July 2017
NHS Digital collects data on headcount nurse and health visitor bank staff in the National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups who are paid through Electronic Staff Records (ESR). Latest data shows that 12,358 (headcount) nurse and health visitor staff are solely employed as Bank staff at March 2017. Information on Agency staff and Bank staff not paid through ESR is not available.