Nurses are earning up to £2,500 to cover shifts at struggling hospital trusts, it was claimed today as a winter of NHS-wide chaos looms.
Agency workers — which can include NHS-salaried medics looking for extra work — are increasingly being drafted in to plug gaps in rotas.
Figures from the BBC show spending on such staff across all medical professions hit £3billion in England last year, up 20 per cent — or £600m — on the year before.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11416257/Nurses-getting-paid-2-500-cover-shifts-struggling-NHS-trusts.html
Agency workers — which can include NHS-salaried medics looking for extra work — are increasingly being drafted in to plug gaps in rotas.
Figures from the BBC show spending on such staff across all medical professions hit £3billion in England last year, up 20 per cent — or £600m — on the year before.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11416257/Nurses-getting-paid-2-500-cover-shifts-struggling-NHS-trusts.html
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