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Nearly £3million was spent on agency nurses last year in two NHS foundation trusts in Suffolk, according to new figures.

Nearly £3million was spent on agency nurses last year in two NHS foundation trusts in Suffolk, according to new figures.

The NHS spent more than £1.3 billion on agency nurses last year, with costs soaring amid the first strikes, new figures show.

Alistair Fitt believes bold reform of the healthcare education system is needed to deliver the student nurses required by the NHS. Read more.

Richard Marks explains why a group of anaesthetists is calling for a wider debate on increasing the number of anaesthesia associates In the past I never really gave much thought to anaesthesia associates. I knew that they were science graduates or healthcare practitioners who did a two year course that allowed them to provide anaesthetic care. Theoretically, they always worked under supervision and with a very restricted scope of practice, although I had heard from colleagues that both of these ...

James Linney picks apart the NHS workforce plan and warns that Sir Keir’s Labour is committed to exactly the same agenda of privatisation and austerity

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care gave a speech at the Centre for Policy Studies ahead of the 75th anniversary of the NHS.

Ms Black was visibly disgusted by the mere mention of the monarch amidst a brutal PMQs which saw the deputy leaders trade personal attacks.

Medic placements will be doubled to 15,000 a year under the NHSs new long-term workforce plan published today

UK recruitment trade bodies have responded to the first ever NHS (National Health Service) Long Term Workforce Plan.