Posted By Bob Youel It all depends on the individual circumstances as each area of the country has different rates as do companies and situations are different e.g. it cost me less in Liverpool than it did Manchester for the same service ~ the same time because L-Pool used local self employed agency staff [~£20.00 PHr nurses & £100 PHr for doctors] whereas we could not get that type of person in Manchester and had to employ a company with higher charges If we used the L-Pool based staff we then had to add on travelling costs which came out more expensive Undertake a costing exercise NB: The rates quoted are old rates!