questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the prevalence in the use of off-framework agency staff by NHS providers; and if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of using these staff on NHS finances.
answerText: The National Health Service is now operating at the lowest levels of off-framework on record, since a peak in month four of 2022/23, with the highest compliance on capped rates since the introduction of the Agency Rules in 2016.The Government is committed...
heading: NHS: Agency Workers