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HOSPITAL bosses are looking abroad to tackle staffing shortages that have seen hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on expensive temporary workers.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust is shipping in a number of experienced Spanish nurses, with 20 set to start work over the next few weeks. The trust has also recruited 40 newly-qualified nurses from closer to home as it bids to tackle a monthly nursing wage bill that soared to ?7.5 million in September ? ?350,000 more than even the busiest winter months last year, when hospitals were full to capacity.
The recruitment drive has already slashed the nursing wage bill by more than ?30,000 a week and cut the use of agency nurses ? which often cost three or four times as much as their NHS equivalents ? by more than half.
http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/10780524.Spanish_armada_of_nurses_to_aid_NHS/
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust is shipping in a number of experienced Spanish nurses, with 20 set to start work over the next few weeks. The trust has also recruited 40 newly-qualified nurses from closer to home as it bids to tackle a monthly nursing wage bill that soared to ?7.5 million in September ? ?350,000 more than even the busiest winter months last year, when hospitals were full to capacity.
The recruitment drive has already slashed the nursing wage bill by more than ?30,000 a week and cut the use of agency nurses ? which often cost three or four times as much as their NHS equivalents ? by more than half.
http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/10780524.Spanish_armada_of_nurses_to_aid_NHS/