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NHS trusts paying as a lot as £2,500 for single company nursing shift, Labour says
NHS trusts are paying as a lot as £2,500 for a single company nursing shift, analysis by the Labour celebration has revealed.
The celebration produced the figures by submitting freedom of data requests, and it says the outcomes present the necessity for an enormous funding in NHS recruitment – which is what Labour is promising.
In a information launch summarising its findings, Labour says:
In whole, the NHS paid greater than £3bn to companies who present medical doctors and nurses on brief discover. The determine represents a 20% rise on final 12 months, when the well being service spent £2.4bn. Trusts spent an additional £6bn on financial institution workers, when NHS workers are paid to do short-term shifts, taking the whole spent on extra workers to round £9.2bn.
One in three NHS trusts paid an company greater than £1,000 for a single shift final 12 months, whereas one in each six trusts paid greater than £2,000, outcomes from freedom of data requests reveal.
The most costly shift was £2,549, paid by Nice Western Hospitals NHS Basis Belief in Swindon. Medway NHS Belief in Kent spent greater than another belief on company workers, paying out £77m final 12 months alone.
A BBC investigation on the identical subject discovered that, although pay charges for company workers are supposedly capped, these limits are often ignored, on the grounds that affected person security would in any other case be in danger.
Commenting on the issue, Wes Streeting, the shadow well being secretary, stated:
Taxpayers are choosing up the invoice for the Conservatives’ failure to coach sufficient medical doctors and nurses over the previous 12 years. That is infuriating quantities of cash paid to companies, when sufferers are ready longer than ever for remedy.
Labour will sort out this drawback at its root. We are going to prepare the medical doctors and nurses the NHS wants, paid for by abolishing the non-dom tax standing.
Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss was once shut pals, however following her determination to sack him as chancellor, and his feedback about her in his TalkTV interview final night time (see 10.14am), it’s arduous to think about that relations are nonetheless cordial.
Tom Newton Dunn requested Kwarteng within the interview in the event that they had been nonetheless pals and he stated they had been. They spoke “comparatively not too long ago”, Kwarteng stated.
However he then stated that she had known as him a couple of days in the past, however that he had missed the decision. Was he going to name her again? “I’ll name her again,” he replied, implying that responding to her has not been a lot of a precedence.
Kwarteng was additionally requested if he thought he would return to authorities in the future. Kwarteng stated he wouldn’t rule it out, however that he was not in search of a ministerial job quickly. He defined:
I believe I would like to only take inventory … I simply need to get again to fundamentals of being an MP.
Kwarteng criticised for claiming that Truss primarily responsible for mini-budget catastrophe as a result of he was urging slower method
Kwasi Kwarteng’s interview with TalkTV final night time was the primary time he had spoken in public in regards to the occasions main as much as his sacking, and one of many essential traces was his suggestion that Liz Truss was primarily responsible for the mini-budget imploding.
Kwarteng accepted a whole lot of duty himself. He advised the programme:
I’m accountable. I’m not going to clean my arms with it. I used to be chancellor of the exchequer. I used to be additionally a part of the highest staff.
However he additionally stated that they went too quick, that Truss was driving this, and that he warned her to decelerate. He stated:
The prime minister was very a lot of the view that we would have liked to maneuver issues quick. However I believe it was too fast. For those who have a look at it, it was on the twenty third of September. We solely obtained into the workplace on the sixth of September. And looking out again, hindsight is an excellent factor, I believe a measured tempo would have been significantly better …
I stated, truly, after the funds that as a result of we had been going very quick – even after the mini-budget we had been going at breakneck velocity – and I stated: ‘You realize, we must always decelerate, decelerate’.
Kwarteng stated that, in response, Truss stated she needed to transfer shortly as a result of she would solely have two years in workplace.
However Kwarteng’s try to dump a number of the duty for what went unsuitable on to Truss has been criticised by journalists, commentators and opposition MPs – not least as a result of Kwarteng gave an interview on the Sunday after the mini-budget implying he wished to go additional.
Right here is a number of the response.
From my colleague Pippa Crerar
From ITV’s Anushka Asthana
From Sky’s Rob Powell
From my colleague Jessica Elgot
From Marc Stears, a former aide to Ed Miliband
From Tim Bale, an educational who has written extensively in regards to the fashionable Conservative celebration
From the Labour MP Diane Abbott
Labour criticises Kwarteng for refusing to apologise for influence of his mini-budget
Angela Rayner, Labour’s deputy chief, has criticised Kwasi Kwarteng, the previous chancellor, for refusing to apologise for the influence of his mini-budget in his interview with TalkTV final night time.
When Kwarteng was requested by the presenter, Tom Newton Dunn, if he would apologise to individuals who needed to pay extra for his or her mortgages after the mini-budget, as lenders put their rates of interest up in response to the idea that Kwarteng’s insurance policies would result in the Financial institution of England elevating rates of interest by greater than anticipated, Kwarteng replied:
I’m not going to, I’m not going to touch upon that. I believe it was regrettable. And I believe folks had been very, very involved. Rates of interest had been going up. The Financial institution of England has put rates of interest up and all of that was occurring. However there was turbulence and I remorse that.
Newton Dunn requested Kwarteng twice extra if he would apologise, however Kwarteng continued to refuse. “I don’t need to relive the previous,” he stated. “I simply need to deal with the place we’re subsequent week.”
However he did say he felt sorry for what individuals who had been having to remortgage had been going by way of. “I actually really feel sympathy for that,” he stated. However he nonetheless felt the “strategic targets” of the mini-budget had been proper, he stated, although the implementation was flawed.
I’ll put up extra from the Kwarteng interview shortly. Right here is our in a single day story on it, by my colleague Nadeem Badshah.
Sturgeon and Drakeford describe talks with Sunak as constructive
As my colleague Lisa O’Carroll stories, Rishi Sunak appeared to make a fairly good impression when he held his first face-to-face assembly with the taoiseach, Micheál Martin, final night time, on the opening of the British-Irish Council summit.
The Irish authorities’s account of the assembly is right here.
Sunak’s conferences with Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish first minister (in particular person), and Mark Drakeford, the Welsh first minister (digital – he has Covid), had been additionally described as constructive. His predecessor, Liz Truss, didn’t even trouble making a courtesy name to them in her 45 days as PM, and Boris Johnson’s relations with them each had been fractious.
That is from Sky Information.
And that is from Adrian Masters, ITV Cymru’s political editor.
Hunt dismisses Kwarteng’s declare that mini-budget to not blame for state of UK funds
Good morning. We’ve obtained lower than every week to go now till the autumn assertion – in impact, the second funds of the autumn – and already a blame sport has damaged out within the Conservative celebration about who’s answerable for the large spending cuts and tax rises the nation is about to face.
In an interview with TalkTV final night time, his first since he was sacked as chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng rejected claims that his mini-budget was primarily responsible. When it was put to him that Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt, the brand new chancellor, had been going responsible him for all the issues, Kwarteng replied:
You realize, the one factor that they might probably blame us for is the rates of interest, and rates of interest have come down and the gilt charges have come down. The black gap and structural issues are already there. I imply, it wasn’t that the nationwide debt was created by Liz Truss’s 44 days in authorities.
When he was challenged once more, Kwarteng even questioned whether or not it was proper to speak a couple of black gap within the first place. He stated:
The nationwide debt wasn’t radically modified by Liz Truss … There isn’t a black gap and the rates of interest and the gilt price funding the debt is precisely the identical because it was earlier than the mini-budget. So the black gap hasn’t been brought on by the mini funds. It’s one thing that Jeremy and Rishi and their officers are going to need to sort out on their very own no matter what occurred within the funds.
However Hunt doesn’t settle for this. He was requested about Kwarteng’s declare in an interview with Sky Information this morning, and he replied:
All I’d say is that once we produced a fiscal assertion that didn’t present how we had been going to carry our money owed down over the medium time period, the markets reacted very badly and so now we have realized that you could’t fund both spending or borrowing with out displaying how you’re going to pay for it and that’s what I’ll do.
Hunt didn’t have interaction with Kwarteng’s particular argument, however he was clearly implying that his predecessor was at fault.
Hunt was giving an interview to answer this morning’s progress figures displaying the economic system shrank by 0.2% within the third quarter of the 12 months. Larry Elliott and Richard Partington have the complete story right here.
And Graeme Wearden has extra on the enterprise reside weblog.
Parliament just isn’t sitting right now, and there’s not a lot within the diary. However Keir Starmer is visiting veterans in north London, and Michael Gove, the levelling up secretary, is because of maintain a press convention at round 12.45pm on the finish of the British-Irish Council summit.
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