The NHS assault on spending on agency staff is set to intensify, a London ... ago, and is still more than £1bn a year. The NHS is Europe's biggest employer, with more than 1.4m staff. Paul Daley and Helen Gordon ... agency spend. Andrew Wilson, deputy chairman of the REC's nursing group, said the training of agency nurses was just as rigorous as for ...

The NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (NHS PASA) claims it spends £500m on agency staff every year. As the health service is the UK’s largest single employer, this figure is hardly a surprise. But it exposes the ... former Conservative health minister Edwina Currie. It’s a classic situation of demand outstripping supply – but is muddled by a ...

... theatre, his team plays an equally vital role in the NHS. As head of supplies for Bart’s - St Bartholomew’s hospital in west Smithfield, London, a few minutes from ...

... agency staff through a controversial scheme that saves the NHS millions of pounds in VAT. The scheme, called STAFFlow and run by ... Silk tells Recruiter that while not unlawful, PwC’s scheme is “not the sort of thing we would advocate as an organisation”. ...

... supplies liaison officer at Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust four years ago, many people questioned the necessity of "wasting" an ... 2,677 nurses carried out as part of "Nursing Times" magazine's "Equip us to Care" campaign in September of this year. In 1996, an Audit ...

The proposals will enable NHS trusts to safely hire non-clinical staff such as admin and maintenance and ... safety”. The change is contained in the body’s response to a consultation into reducing expenditure on non-clinical agency ... and build staff bank capacity. Responding to today’s announcement, Sophie Wingfield, head of policy and public affairs at the ...

... and an ageing population were putting more strain on the NHS and trusts were increasingly turning to recruiters for staffing help.  ... of 62 agencies responded to each question during the REC’s webinar. Want to comment on this story? The Comment box is at the ...

... that suggests that in the past HCL did not fully comply with NHS framework agreements. When asked by Recruiter whether HCL has ... Sullivan said he didn’t know in detail whether HCL’s problems had damaged business with individual clients in the UK. “HCL is ...

... Between 1999 and 2004, the number of nurses employed by the NHS in England increased by more than 67,000 - more then three times the 20,000 ... and employers are already acting on many of the committee’s suggestions. Workforce planning has always been a huge challenge in ...

... Between 1999 and 2004, the number of nurses employed by the NHS in England increased by more than 67,000 - more then three times the 20,000 ... and employers are already acting on many of the committee’s suggestions. Workforce planning has always been a huge challenge in ...