{"id":437701,"date":"2026-05-07T22:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/437701\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T22:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:45:18","slug":"wexford-general-hospitals-e11-5-million-spend-on-agency-staff-branded-a-scandal-amid-cost-cutting-recruitment-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/437701\/","title":{"rendered":"Wexford General Hospital\u2019s \u20ac11.5 million spend on agency staff branded \u2018a scandal\u2019 amid cost-cutting recruitment freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wexford General Hospital\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/971caf24-6559-4546-b6e4-67dffa00d32c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Wexford General Hospital<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Wexford General Hospital has seen a six-fold increase in its spend on agency healthcare assistants over a three year period, while the spend on agency employed nurses has quadrupled during the same period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">These figures emerge as it was revealed that all recruitment for \u201cnon-frontline, non-critical\u201d posts within HSE Dublin and South East is to be paused indefinitely amid a budget deficit of \u20ac37.4 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wexford General Hospital Wexford General Hospital has seen a six-fold increase in its spend on agency healthcare assistants&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60,10489],"class_list":["post-437701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-padraig-byrne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}