Health Professions: Agency Workers
(asked on 18th March 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) doctors and (b) nurses were employed using bank and locum staff in each of the last five years.
Since April 2017 NHS Improvement collects data on the number of bank and agency staff employed by individual National Health Service providers.
The following table shows the number of full time equivalent doctors and nursing and midwifery bank and agency staff employed by NHS providers for every quarter since June 2017 to latest data.
| 2017/18 Q1 | 2017/18 Q2 | 2017/18 Q3 | 2017/18 Q4 | 2018/19 Q1 | 2018/19 Q2 | 2018/19 Q3 |
Total bank and agency- nursing and midwifery workforce | 30,619 | 33,110 | 31,415 | 37,689 | 33,137 | 33,221 | 32,008 |
Total bank and agency - doctors’ workforce | 8,441 | 8,887 | 8,820 | 9,640 | 9,297 | 9,093 | 9,294 |