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Originally posted by kink
Russ is right.
I know that agency nurses in London get paid a minimum of at least £20 an hour and depending on their grade and speciality, up to circa £35 an hour.
Do not confuse this with the average wage of a recently qualified nurse in the NHS... it is considerably less. Because of this.... more and more nurses are leaving the NHS to do agency work or are at least doing it to supplement the wage they already earn.
This means that the NHS service is unable to fill empty nursing posts with full-time permanent staff.. and are having to take on more agency staff who are more expensive to make ends meet.
A vicious circle....
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Wish I got paid that much
It is the case in most industries that if you are a contractor (or temp), you get paid a lot more.. You lose job security (in theory) though.
Actually, it is ironic, that when I did some invoice clearing for the Catering Department of our local hospital, we were getting rid of kitchen staff "to save money" and then having to take on temps at twice (or three times) the cost to cover the workload. Never did understand the logic behind that..
As to nurses pay, well, it can be good. I have a friend who is a nurse, and is earning more than I do for less than half the hours a week I do (I do around 40, she does around 15-20). I am in the wrong job...