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Nurses: Temporary Employment

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 48429, tabled on 6 September 2022

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

This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.

Answered on

6 October 2022

The following table shows expenditure on agency nurses in National Health Service providers from 2016/17 to 2020/21. The information requested for 2021/22 will be available in January 2023.

2016/17

2017/18

2018/19

2019/20

2020/21

£966,198,000

£808,662,000

£843,282,000

£878,521,000

£837,823,000

Source:

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

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