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Figures released by Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, show its spending on stand-in doctors for A&E departments has increased by 300 per cent in just four years.
In 2010, the trust spent around ?500,000 on locums in A&E departments. Last year, that expenditure had risen to ?1.5 million - five times the national average increase of 60 per cent.
These figures have come to light, following Labour?s Freedom of Information requests to all NHS Trusts running A&E departments.
Rebecca Blake, Labour?s parliamentary candidate for Redditch said: "I am fighting hard for us to keep accident and emergency services at the Alexandra Hospital, and this trebling of costs is a huge blow.
http://www.redditchadvertiser.co.uk...r_huge_hike_in_locum_expenditure_at_A_amp_Es/
In 2010, the trust spent around ?500,000 on locums in A&E departments. Last year, that expenditure had risen to ?1.5 million - five times the national average increase of 60 per cent.
These figures have come to light, following Labour?s Freedom of Information requests to all NHS Trusts running A&E departments.
Rebecca Blake, Labour?s parliamentary candidate for Redditch said: "I am fighting hard for us to keep accident and emergency services at the Alexandra Hospital, and this trebling of costs is a huge blow.
http://www.redditchadvertiser.co.uk...r_huge_hike_in_locum_expenditure_at_A_amp_Es/