NHS: Agency Workers
Commons · Question 29010 · Tabled 5 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Helen Morgan
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the prevalence in the use of off-framework agency staff by NHS providers; and if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of using these staff on NHS financ
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 14 Feb 2025
The National Health Service is now operating at the lowest levels of off-framework on record, since a peak in month four of 2022/23, with the highest compliance on capped rates since the introduction of the Agency Rules in 2016.The Government is committed...