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TB checks could bar locums from NHS
Recruiters say the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (PASA) has introduced an 'unwritten rule' ... not had a check for tuberculosis (TB) from working in the NHS. Recruiter understands that PASA decided in March that all locums ... guidelines, it had thus far refused to do so. PASA's reluctance to publish these guidelines may be because they would go against ...
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Healthcare recruitment: Castlerock Care Services defends agencies against NHS ‘overcharging’ claims
... claims made in the national press that it is charging the NHS excessive hourly rates when providing temporary staff. A report in the ... pay a premium,” he adds. Tom Hadley, the REC’s (Recruitment & Employment Confederation) director of external relations, ...
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Controls on NHS agency use won’t reduce spend, say Trust FDs
... 2015 While recruiters think government measures to reduce NHS agency spend, through introducing staff banks and capping agency ... don’t appear to agree. A report from the King’s Fund, an independent charity working to improve health and social care policy ...
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Bring in a new model for recruiting nhs nurses
Thu, 27 Aug 2015 FROM SEPTEMBER 2015'S RECRUITER MAGAZINE When Dr Keith McNeil, chief executive of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, described the recruitment of overseas nurses as ... While I am in full agreement with Dr McNeil’s call for a more targeted approach, I do not believe the NHS is able to exist ...
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NHS will rely more on interims
The NHS will need to significantly increase its use of flexible staffing if a ... and Company has advised the Department of Health that the NHS in England would need to cut its workforce by 10% (around 137,000 jobs) if ... constraints make themselves felt in the years ahead. It’s time the government recognised this and made it easier for Trusts to work ...
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Targeted hiring key to meeting coalition NHS pledges
... Democrats pledged to continue to invest in and support the NHS and to protect front line services - yet it remains to be seen whether they ... has warned of spending cuts in the future. He told the BBC’s Today Programme that ’the service would not be saved from the same kind of ...
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NHS purchasing bodies face an uncertain future
... AT Kearney were hired to initiate a review of Pasa and the NHS Logistics Authority. The main issues were the supply chain, the ... contracts with the private sector". Duncan Eaton, Pasa's chief executive, said: "We need to organise ourselves in the most efficient ...
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NHS purchasing bodies face an uncertain future_2
... AT Kearney were hired to initiate a review of Pasa and the NHS Logistics Authority. The main issues were the supply chain, the ... contracts with the private sector". Duncan Eaton, Pasa's chief executive, said: "We need to organise ourselves in the most efficient ...
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NHS pay increase good but doesn’t go far enough, say recruiters
... with union leaders and ministers yesterday, more than 1m NHS staff including nurses, porters and paramedics are being offered pay ... abandoned its plans to force 1m NHS staff to give up a day’s holiday in exchange for a salary increase. Pre-conditions attached to long ...
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Trusts choose in-house systems over NHS plan
... of procurement at Birmingham Specialist Community Health NHS Trust. This is partly because some trusts preferred to manage their ... were left within trusts. Following last year’s Cabinet Office review of NHS purchasing, trusts have until the end of the ...