Hospitals: Temporary Employment
(asked on 23rd March 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total cost to NHS hospitals in London of using (a) agency and (b) bank staff was in each year since 2015-16.
This question was answered on 23rd April 2021
The following table shows expenditure data for agency and bank staff in National Health Service trusts in London for the previous five financial years.
Expenditure type | 2015-2016 | 2016-2017 | 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 |
Agency staff | £837,109 | £714,955 | £528,216 | £498,228 | £482,386 |
Bank staff | £646,595 | £761,432 | £909,542 | £972,708 | £1,020,580 |
Total | £1,483,704 | £1,476,387 | £1,437,758 | £1,470,936 | £1,502,966 |