Doctors in Cumbria covering shifts were paid £8m in the last year a Freedom of Information request has revealed. 

In Cumbria report:

North Cumbria’s troubled hospitals trust has come under heavy criticism for spending nearly £8 million on locum doctors in the last year, paying one of them £158 an hour.

The high level of spending on temporary medics was unavoidable, the trust said today.

But critics have blamed it on the lingering uncertainty which hangs over the cash-strapped trust which runs both the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle and the West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven.

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Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
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.