§ Mr. Cordleasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether she has received a copy of the Federation of Personnel Services' recent national survey of attitudes, comments and statistics concerning agency nurses; whether she accepts the findings contained in that report; and if she will make a statement.
§ Mr. MeacherThe Federation sent me a copy. The survey was representative of agency nurses in both the public and private sector, and the geographical distribution was the reverse of that in the 141W NHS. Given the nature of the sample and the fact that the survey was in part one of attitudes, which may or may not reflect practical intentions now, I could not accept the findings as necessarily applicable to agency nurses working in the NHS.