Agency Nurses: Costs
Commons · Question 39596 · Tabled 19 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Helen Morgan
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average cost to the public purse is of one band 5 nursing hour supplied by (a) On-framework staffing agencies and (b) Off-framework staffing agencies to the NHS in each year since 2019.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 4 Apr 2025
The Department does not hold the data requested.The Government is committed to reducing off-framework agency use, the cost of which is at a premium, above the agreed framework rates. Additionally, staff hired through off-framework agencies are not subject...