the Health Service Journal has warned staffing agencies that do not comply with new caps on nurses’ payment that they could be “ejected from the marketplace”. In a bid to reduce the Regulator NHS Improvement agency wage bill, from last month , trusts were told they could not pay 55% over Regulator NHS Improvement pay rate for agency staff. However, according to the Health Service Journal , a small number of agencies are claiming that the pay cut makes it “challenging” to find sufficiently qualified intensive care staff.
Regulator NHS Improvement has warned staffing agencies that do not comply with new caps on nurses’ payment that they could be “ejected from the marketplace”. In a bid to reduce the NHS agency wage bill, from 1 April, trusts were told they could not pay more than 55% over the Agenda for Change pay rate for agency staff. However, according to the Health Service Journal, a small number of agencies are claiming that the pay cut makes it “challenging” to find sufficiently qualified intensive care staff.