Two health boards paid more than £1,500 for an agency nurse to cover a single hospital shift, new figures reveal.

NHS Lanarkshire spent £1,565 on a single shift in 2015-16, while the largest amount paid by NHS Lothian in the past three years was £1,528.

The figures were obtained under Freedom of Information by the Scottish Conservatives, who branded them “a slap in the face” to NHS staff nurses.

Reported by BBC News. You can read the full story here. 

I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.