MORE than £16m of taxpayers’ cash is being spent on hospital locums by an NHS trust, a Freedom of Information request revealed.

The trust responsible for Copeland’s main hospital has trebled its spending on agency staff in just three years because of the “recruitment crisis” at West Cumberland Hospital.

“Shocking” figures obtained by Copeland Labour MP Jamie Reed exposed North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust plans to spend a whopping £16.5m in the financial year 2014/15 – up from £5.69m in 2011/12.

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Matthew Burgess
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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.