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[email protected] https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2016 7 Agency staff in the NHS Katja Grasic Introduction The quality of care and safety of patients in NHS hospitals depend on having an adequate number of skilled healthcare professionals. Growing shortages of qualified clinical and non-clinical staff have led to increasing reliance on agency staff to resolve staffing shortfalls and ensure safe staffing numbers. This has engendered a rapid growth in agency expenditure, and contributed to deficits in hospital budgets (King’s Fund, 2015a).