The REC achieved £5.6m in turnover in 2006, a £700,000 increase from 2005, according to financial reports released last week.

At the trade body's annual general meeting, REC board chairman Gary Irvine also announced that the organisation suffered a £201,644 deficit due to exceptional expenditures last year.

The NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (PASA) has invited agencies to register their interest in bidding for a £187m, three-year contract for the supply of medical locums.

The contract, which can be extended for an additional 12 months, is a renewal of the current framework agreement and covers all grades and specialities of locums except locum GPs throughout England, Wales and Scotland.
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Shares in Michael Page International have risen to yet another high, following the group's first-quarter trading update.

The financial recruitment specialist said first quarter gross profits were £105.4m, up 33.2% on the same period a year earlier.

Employers will have to think differently about where the next generation of leaders is coming from, according to one management guru.

Bruce Tulgan, founder of US-based research and training company rainmakerthinking.com, was addressing the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's 'Human Resources Developing' conference last month.

He said the rules of the workplace had b