NHS: Agency Nurses

(asked on 14th April 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS has spent on temporary NHS bank and agency nurses in each of the last three years.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 28th April 2022

The information requested is shown in the following table.

2018/19

2019/20

2020/21

Nursing bank expenditure

£1,127,729,000

£1,254,899,000

£1,538,238,000

Nursing agency expenditure

£843,282,000

£878,521,000

£837,823,000

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