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PRIVATE firms supplying medical staff to NHS Scotland have made millions of pounds of profit and paid some directors up to £800,000 as the health service struggles, we can reveal.
The Scottish Government said “new controls” were introduced in April to “gradually reduce” the number of shifts being filled by agency nursing staff.Vacant shifts are initially offered internally as overtime, before being offered to an internal “bank” of NHS workers able to work ad hoc. If there are no takers, the shift is offered to agency staff on capped rates and, failing that, advertised to uncapped agency workers.
Locum People, owned by Cook Recruitment Group Ltd, earned nearly £4m from NHS Grampian. Cook Recruitment Group’s latest accounts, for the end of February 2021, show a turnover of £39.6m and an operating profit of £1.1m. Its three directors received £422,000 in salaries combined. Its accounts show £339,000 was paid out in dividends.
“This latest investigation by The Ferret goes to show that we can’t trust private companies anywhere near our health service. The Scottish Government told us in May that they are ‘absolutely committed’ to opposing the role of the private sector in our NHS. Now we need to see them put that into practice: nothing to that effect was said in Humza Yousaf’s recent Programme For Government.”
However, Kate Shoesmith, deputy chief executive at the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, said agencies are vital to the NHS and that the “growth in demand” for temporary staff is down to “successive governments’ inability to come up with the right workforce plan” for the NHS.
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