Pounds 122,000 a Year Nurses ; Trust's Pounds 69 Per Hour On Agency Workers: Exclusive: Tories Attack Nurse Costs

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A CASH-strapped Midland hospital has paid an agency nurse the equivalent of a whopping pounds 122,000 annual salary - nearly four times what a full-time worker would earn.

Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust forked out pounds 69.95-an-hour for an agency nurse to cover in its accident and emergency department in October. Yet a specialist nurse would usually earn a maximum of pounds 34,000 at the health unit.

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Pounds 122,000 a Year Nurses ; Trust's Pounds 69 Per Hour On Agency Workers: Exclusive: Tories Attack Nurse Costs

And Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust paid an agency nurse pounds 48-an-hour during the same month, the equivalent of an...

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