UK: A lack of doctors and nurses in the NHS is forcing bosses to pay high rates for agency staff, new analysis shows.

For many shifts, bosses have been so short-staffed they have been willing to breach Government pay caps for agency workers, most of whom are doctors and nurses.

Separate data supplied by Labour shows some NHS trusts have paid as much as £2,500 to nurses to fill shifts. There are currently almost 47,000 nursing vacancies in the NHS.

One cancer doctor said he was offered £130 an hour – well above the cap for his role – and described the fees available as “astonishing” and a reflection of “desperation by management”.

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