NHS could save £191m a year on locums, pay rates analysis finds
Trusts could make savings of £191 million per year in spending on locums across the four main staffing grades, as new figures show the impact of the fresh cap on
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Tag: Recruitment / Retention
Care agency owner jailed for three years over immigration breaches
The owner of a care agency shut down in a UK Border Agency immigration raid – which led to an elderly woman starving to death – has been jailed for
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Scottish Care warns of recruitment ‘crisis point’ as it sets out election manifesto
Care leaders are calling for more government funding to help boost carers’ wages as part of a manifesto detailing the needs of Scotland’s ageing population in advance of the Holyrood
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Consultation: Welsh Gov recruitment and retention of domiciliary care workers
The Welsh Government is holding a consultation on changes it is planning to make to improve the quality of domiciliary care in Wales to improve the retention and recruitment of staff. Domiciliary
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FOI request reveals 30,000 vacancies across NHS trusts and health boards
Thousands of NHS doctor and nursing posts are lying vacant, trusts and health boards have said. More than two-thirds of trusts and health boards in the UK are looking to
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Care provider warns recruitment problems could leave vulnerable in crisis
Thousands of jobs that no-one wants to do, like looking after the vulnerable and elderly, could leave care work in crisis, a survey claims. Two-thirds of adults polled would shun
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Northern Ireland Southern HSC Trust launch care worker recruitment campaign
The Southern Health and Social Care Trust has launched a new campaign to increase the number of domiciliary care workers helping to support people in their own homes. The campaign
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Sturgeon unveils £27m to help GP and nursing recruitment ‘challenges’
Scotland faces “real challenges” in recruiting GPs over the next decade, the First Minister has acknowledged, as she announced funding of £27 million to train more doctors, nurses and midwives.
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Spending cap ‘has left agencies struggling to supply workers to NHS’
Agencies which supply workers to the NHS say they are struggling to fill shifts since a spending cap was introduced by the Government. A survey by the Recruitment and Employment
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Watchdog blames ‘rip-off’ staffing agencies for pushing NHS into deficit
Locum doctors and nurses are unfairly earning significantly more than their NHS counterparts by working for “rip-off agencies”, according to health sector regulators. Monitor and the NHS TDA (Trust Development
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