£200K NURSES SHOCK High-price temps fail veterans
MORE than £200,000 is being spent every month on temporary agency nurses to support our traumatised troops.
Veterans’ charities have blasted the huge spend as a waste of taxpayers’ cash.
They say soldiers suffering from PTSD will not recover if they are “passed from pillar to post”.
The Ministry of Defence spent £1.3million hiring mental health nurses from agencies between July and December last year, according to figures disclosed under Freedom of Information laws.
Billy MacLeod, founder of the charity Veterans In Action, said: “That is a shocking amount of money. As we all know locums