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Figures reveal “wasteful” NHS trusts have spent more than £17m on agency midwives in one year – enough to employ 511 full-time staff.
The figures – obtained by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) through freedom of information requests – cover a three-year period and are published in a new report.
It says spending soared by 75.7% in two years, from £10,159,099 in 2012 to £17,849,767 in 2014, the equivalent in wage costs to 511 midwives.
The variation in the amount of agency spending between the 136 trusts in England is stark. While one trust spent just £358 on agency staff between 2012 and 2014, another paid out £4,482,432 in the same period.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/24/nhs-spends-17-million-agency-midwives-in-year
The figures – obtained by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) through freedom of information requests – cover a three-year period and are published in a new report.
It says spending soared by 75.7% in two years, from £10,159,099 in 2012 to £17,849,767 in 2014, the equivalent in wage costs to 511 midwives.
The variation in the amount of agency spending between the 136 trusts in England is stark. While one trust spent just £358 on agency staff between 2012 and 2014, another paid out £4,482,432 in the same period.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/24/nhs-spends-17-million-agency-midwives-in-year
