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#AceHealthDesk – NHS bosses are increasingly paying premium rates for agency staff to plug holes in rotas, the BBC has found.
Spending in this area rose by 20% last year to hit £3bn in England.
For many shifts, bosses have been so short-staffed they have been willing to breach the government pay caps for these agency workers, most of whom are doctors and nurses.
Separate data supplied by Labour showed some NHS trusts had paid as much as £2,500 to nurses to fill shifts.
Out of 60 responses from trusts, 10 reported the most expensive shift cost over £2,000, and for another 13 it was between £1,000-2,000.
The BBC has also seen evidence of aggressive marketing by agencies – which take a cut of the shift pay. One boasted it is the “best” time to try it, because the fees that can be commanded are increasing.
Although paying out £2,500 for one nursing shift may not be the norm – it shows how much supply shortages can cost the NHS.
The government said the NHS faced some exceptional pressures last year, but it expected spending on agency staff to fall in the future.
The BBC spoke to one cancer doctor who was offered work for £130 an hour – well above the cap for his role – and described the fees available as “astonishing” and a reflection of “desperation by management”.
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