Schedule 1 - Constitution of public benefit corporations
Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill
8:55 am
Mr Stephen Pound (Ealing North, Labour)
I am not being antagonistic, but I want to make the point—as one who has spent most of his life surrounded by a coven of nurses, be they sisters, wives or whatever—that, by definition, a bank nurse is one who is employed in the NHS and who is working on his or her day off or during a leave period. An extremely high percentage of agency nurses, and almost all bank nurses, are contracted NHS employees who have in their substantive employment precisely the rights that the hon. Gentleman fears that they may be surrendering.