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You are here: Home / News / Health /Trusts are undermining safety and efforts to cut costs by placing too much reliance on agency nurses, according to a report by the health service’s in-house temporary staff bank NHS Professionals.
The report is based on data from 80 trusts, including acute, teaching, foundation and mental health trusts and reveals that acute trusts used 15 per cent more agency workers during April to June 2010, compared with the same period last year.
http://www.nursingtimes.net/whats-new-in-nursing/acute-care/wards-rely-on-agency-staff-as-trusts-strive-to-save-cash/5018464.article?referrer=RSS"> Read the full article on the Nursing Times website.
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