NHS crisis: Bosses under fire after nurse paid £2,200 to cover ONE shift
AN NHS trust has been blasted for wasting public money after it emerged that it paid a temporary nurse £2,200 to cover ONE shift.
The shocking figure, which works out at a whopping £183.33-an-hour, was handed to the nurse by the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust for just one 12-hour shift. Incredibly, the unbelievable sum, which was revealed following a Freedom of Information Act request, is more than DOUBLE the rate of a neurologist. It also emerged there were 47 agency nurses working at the Shropshire trust in December last year. The trust, which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, Shropshire, has now been criticised for its spending.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/569228/NHS-under-fire-nurse-paid-2-200-for-one-shift-cover
One nurse (not pictured) was paid £2,200 for one 12-hour shift
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