... placement contract with the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire NHS trust, one of its biggest deals since being listed on the Alternative ... a result of its approved operator status by the government’s purchasing and supplies agency (PASA) to supply the NHS across the UK. ...

Nestor Healthcare is to scale down its NHS agency business, which has suffered yet another slump in revenue and ... in 2004. “The well-publicised overspends in the NHS are having a significant impact on the demand for staff, both temporary and permanent,” said chairman John Rennocks. “It's a situation exacerbated by an oversupply of certain professionals - for ...

... number of staff it is recruiting from abroad to work in the NHS. HCL saw turnover more than triple to £43.9m in 2005 after an ... year,” said chief executive Kate Bleasdale. The company's pre-tax loss widened to £1.4m, from £0.1m. The results were affected by ...

Hospitals and NHS trusts relying on overseas nurses to fill vacant places could face severe ... of external relations at the REC, the recruitment industry’s trade body, said: “Our members are alarmed at the pace with which this ... on nurse recruitment from overseas which is vital to the NHS and will affect NHS trusts and the agencies that support their ...

... nations, Reid said he would be updating and clarifying the NHS’s ethical recruitment code in order to eliminate abuse. The code, ...

The health service’s in-house recruitment agency, NHS Professionals, will now be covered by government regulations. Lobbying ... will be subject to investigations by the government’s Employment Agencies Inspectorate if it is suspected of failing to obey the ...

... has launched a new service to help them win places on the NHS’s preferred supplier list. The NHS Purchasing and Supply Authority is ...

... powers over staff they supply once they are placed on an NHS assignment”. The NHS wanted to impose these conditions on agencies ... MD of insurers Dallas Kirkland, who was part of the REC’s negotiating team. The government has agreed that agencies must check that ...

... the exercise shaved up to 12 per cent off each category’s costs, and elevated buying to a strategic level. That’s the way ... to work. The Royal Bournemouth & Christchurch Hospitals NHS Trust was one of the first to put its procurement services out to tender ...

... will increase the number of agencies able to work with the NHS, but it has more appropriate operating margins. It is going to bring its ... budgets but if they start cutting the money available, it’s not going to be long before there are headlines about elderly people left in ...