Exclusive: NHS trusts spend £46m on management help and recruitment agencies in 'shocking' use of taxpayers' money JamesGooderson
By James Gooderson and Connor Hand
By contrast, recruitment agency costs are fees paid to firms that fill temporary and permanent workforce shortages within the NHS.Critics, however, argue that the spending reflects years of underinvestment in the NHS, a point articulated by Mr Streeting when responding to LBC's findings. Currently, there are over 130,000 vacancies in the NHS, with questions of staff morale, retention and pay underscored by months of industrial action undertaken by nurses, junior doctors and ambulance staff.Filling the gaps created by this workforce shortfall has placed more pressure on some trusts than others.
Seeking to address the shortage, and therefore reduce the estimated £3bn of annual agency bill the NHS faces, the government last week unveiled a 15-year workforce plan, doubling the number of medical training places by 2031 and increasing the NHS workforce by 330,000 by 2038.
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