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<p>Following the Francis report many trusts increased their spend on temporary staffing
to meet safe staffing levels.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department expects
trusts to have a strong grip on their finances, and manage their agency and temporary
staffing spend responsibly through effective and efficient workforce planning and
management.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Spend by each National Health Service foundation
trust on contract and agency staff[1] in each of the last five years is attached.</p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The amount spent by each NHS trust on contract and agency staff
in 2013-14 is attached. Amounts for 2009-10 to 2012-13 were not separately identified
from other non permanent staff[2].</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>1. The definition
of Contract / Agency staff is: “Agency” employee payments for the employment of staff
where the staff remain employees of the agency and “Contract staff” where the NHS
trust has control over numbers and qualifications of staff (in contrast to a service
obtained under contract) .</p><p> </p><p>[2] non-permanent staff are defined as “others
engaged on the objectives of the organisation including staff on inward secondment
or loan from other organisations, bank/agency/temporary staff and contract staff.</p><p>
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