Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 39597

NHS: Agency Workers

Tabled: 19 March 2025

Answered: 2 April 2025

Named Day

Question

Helen Morgan

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of banning the use of off-framework staffing agencies by the NHS.

Answer

Karin Smyth

The planning guidance for 2024/25 set out the expectation that trusts should end off-framework agency use. The National Health Service is now operating at the lowest levels of off-framework use on record.The planning guidance for 2025/26 sets out, for the...

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