article_snippet: ‘The truth of it, Mr Cameron, is that well-run hospitals are less reliant on agency staff’ Mr Cameron said.
article_snippet: We need to make sure all hospitals copy the best hospitals that are less reliant on agency staff.
article_snippet: It was revealed earlier this week that hospitals are paying locum doctors up to £3,200 a shift – of which a substantial cut goes to the agency.
article_snippet: NHS trusts spent £1.2bn on agency staff in 2013-14 – with agency nurses being paid up to £160 an hour to make up for staff shortages in
article_snippet: Mr Clemo, said afterwards that without action to stop agency staff being paid double the rate of normal staff Mr Clemo local hospital ‘will be bankrupt in two years’.
article_snippet: Mr Clemo said: ‘The agencies are getting mega-rich out of fleecing the hospital.