Dawn Butler – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dawn Butler on 2016-04-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of changes in the level of expenditure on agency, bank or locum staff since the introduction of national price caps for NHS agency staff.
Alistair Burt
Information on temporary staff fill rates is not collected centrally.
NHS Improvement has calculated that since the introduction of the price caps, agency spending by National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts has fallen from £303 million in October 2015 to £287 million in February 2016.
Monitor has previously released information on the number of trusts reporting using shifts in excess of the price caps from 23 November to 28 December 2015. This can be accessed here:
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