Mr. Waldron questions the Minister for Health about budgeting for agency nurses in country hospitals. The Minister's response indicates that funding for agency nurses is included within the general budget for full-time equivalents.

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7 November 2001
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COUNTRY HOSPITALS, AGENCY NURSES
The second part of my question asked whether the minister will instruct the Department of Health to budget up front for the use of agency nurses? Mr KUCERA

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The difficulty with agency nurses is that if we stop using them and they are not funded, there will be no agency nurses. The funds are there for full-time equivalents generally. That takes into account the agency nurses as well.
Mr KUCERA replied: The difficulty with agency nurses is that if we stop using them and they are not funded, there will be no agency nurses. The funds are there for full-time equivalents generally. That takes into account the agency nurses as well.
The difficulty with agency nurses is that if we stop using them and they are not funded, there will be no agency nurses. The funds are there for full-time equivalents generally. That takes into account the agency nurses as well.

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