Since the beginning of the year, a number of recruiters have been awarded places on the Buying Solutions framework agreement to provide recruitment services to the NHS. These include: healthcare recruiter Meridian Health, IT staffing firm Concept IT, multi-sector recruiter Incite Solutions (ISL), accountancy, HR and procurement recruiter Volante Hobbs, multi-sector recruiter Specialist Recruitment Services, healthcare recruiter Nursing Solutions, multi-sector staffing firm Central Employment Agency, engineering recruiter Entech, Jark Construction, Jark Industrial, multi-sector recruiter Aptus Personnel, IT recruiter Parity Resources, multi-sector recruiter Plum Personnel, multi-sector recruiter Jobwise and multi-sector recruiter IntaPeople. In addition, tender management service Marion Richards Associates announced that the 23 recruiters it represented have also won places on the framework agreement for the supply of non-medical staff to the NHS.