"'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."
"'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."
The HSE is projected to spend more than €720m on agency workers this year while failing to fill over 3,700 staff positions that already have funding. Specifically, €124m is being spent on agency nurses even though 1,096 funded nursing posts are vacant. Agency workers are used across a wide range of services and are hired daily to provide medical and nursing care, administrative duties, general support, and other patient care tasks. Substantial reliance on agency staffing coincides with a large number of funded but unfilled posts.
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