"'Unacceptable' that HSE is spending €124m on agency nurses, while 1,096 funded posts are vacant, TD says The HSE is on course to spend more than €720m hiring agency workers this year while not filling more than 3,700 staff jobs for which it has funding. Agency workers cover a wide range of services and are hired daily to provide medical and nursing care, administrative duties, as well as general support and other patient care."
"€124m on agency nurses, while 1,096 funded posts are vacant, TD says The HSE is on course to spend more than €720m hiring agency workers this year while not filling more than 3,700 staff jobs for which it has funding. Agency workers cover a wide range of services and are hired daily to provide medical and nursing care, administrative duties, as well as general support and other patient care."
The HSE is projected to spend more than €720 million on agency workers this year while not filling over 3,700 staff jobs that already have funding. Separate figures show €124 million being spent specifically on agency nurses even though 1,096 funded nursing posts are vacant. Agency staff are used across multiple roles, including medical and nursing care, administrative duties, and general patient support. The concurrent high agency expenditure and large numbers of funded but vacant positions indicate continued reliance on temporary staffing rather than filling funded permanent roles.
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