Table 2.

Expenditure on agency nurses 2009/10

	Hospital 1 South African Rand (R)	Hospital 2 South African Rand (R)
Overall hospital expenditure	1,143,417,253	396,493,291
Compensation of employees (personnel)	727,229,805	251,458,449
Annual expenditure on agency nurses	38,864,376	10,404,186
Weekly expenditure on agency nurses	747,392	200,081
Expenditure on agency nurses as % of overall hospital expenditure	3.40%	2.62%
Expenditure on agency nurses as % of compensation of employees (personnel)	5.34%	4.14%

Source: South African National Treasury, National Basic Accounting System.