A shortage of NHS nurses has led to the RD&E hospital spending more than £4.6 million on agency staff in the first six months of this year.
The latest figures published this morning show that the amount for the whole of last year was around £6 million.
Meanwhile the Devon Partnership NHS Trust has paid more than £2 million so far this year - the total for 2014 was £2.25 million.
Sarah Zanoni is the regional operations manager for the Royal College of Nursing and she says one problem is that many nurses feel they can no longer work for the NHS.
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