Clamp down on 鈥榬ip-off鈥� nursing agencies
The government has announced measures to clamp down on "rip-off" staffing agencies used by the NHS to plug gaps in nursing and doctor rotas.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said staff costs had spiralled out of control, with the cost of agency and contract staff across the entire NHS in England in 2014 totalling 拢3.3bn.
The agencies' body says they are being scapegoated "for the NHS's own mismanagement of workforce planning".
A panel of nurses and a nursing agency joined Joanna Gosling to discuss the plans.
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