NHS: Agency Workers
Commons · Question 39597 · Tabled 19 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Helen Morgan
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of banning the use of off-framework staffing agencies by the NHS.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 2 Apr 2025
The planning guidance for 2024/25 set out the expectation that trusts should end off-framework agency use. The National Health Service is now operating at the lowest levels of off-framework use on record.The planning guidance for 2025/26 sets out, for the...