Barts Health NHS Trust: Agency Workers
(asked on 18th October 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the cost of providing agency staff due to shortages of NHS staff within Barts Health NHS Trust in the last 12 months.
This question was answered on 27th October 2022
The cost of supplying agency staff to Barts Health NHS Trust in 2021/22 was £48.6 million. While agency staff may cover for vacancies, the deployment of a flexible workforce assists the efficient running of the National Health Service, allowing it to meet fluctuations in demand. Staff can be drawn from internal staff banks or external agencies.