SUCKING UK'S NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE DRY

 

 Agency leeches are sucking NHS dry: Middlemen charge HALF A BILLION pounds a year to provide locum nurses and doctors... and one group of staff were even given free trip to the Caribbean 

Middlemen are charging the NHS half a billion pounds a year in fees for agency staff. The massive premium, which is on top of sky-high wages paid to locum doctors and nurses, can be revealed today by a Mail audit. Employees at one agency were rewarded for a profitable year with a free trip to the Caribbean, where they were pictured sipping cocktails in a hotel (top image). Meanwhile Dr Mo Sacoor (bottom left) founded locum agency ID Medical in 2002 – and last year it turned over more than £100million. Its parent company, ID Medical Group Holdings, made a profit of around £3million, part of which was derived from the fees it charges the NHS to hire locums on its books.