Fuelled by a chronic recruitment crisis, health chiefs are being bounced into handing over an estimated £500 million a year to fill empty locum shifts with agency staff. Fuelled by a chronic recruitment crisis, health chiefs are being bounced into handing over an estimated £500 million a year to fill empty locum shifts with agency staff.
Private agencies rake in bumper profits from hiring out locum doctors to hospitals – which cost the NHS over £500million a year
