Doctors

(asked on 18th October 2022) - View Source
Questioner
Wes Streeting Portrait
Wes Streeting
(Labour - Ilford North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much NHS England spent on agency doctors in each of the last five years.

Answered by
Will Quince Portrait
Will Quince
This question was answered on 30th November 2022

NHS England collect data on agency expenditure from the National Health Service (NHS). NHS England started collecting agency spend data from 2017/18, this is shown in the following table. 2021/22 data is not yet validated; the statutory deadline for laying audited accounts before Parliament is 31 January.

2016/17

2017/18

2018/19

2019/20

2020/21

N/A

£949,883,470

£937,864,774

£918,617,743

£918,879,984

Spend on temporary agency doctors was 6.6% of spend on doctors in substantive roles in 2020/21.

NHS England do not incur expenditure on agency doctors themselves. They collect agency expenditure data for NHS providers and the audited information is published in the trust accounts consolidation (TAC) data files on its public website which can be found at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/financial-accounting-and-reporting/nhs-providers-tac-data-publications/

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