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💷 £292m Allocated for GP Recruitment – Are Practices Ready to Use It? 💷 Under the 2026/27 GP contract changes, £292 million has been set aside specifically to support practices in bringing in more GPs or increasing GP clinical sessions. This funding represents a real chance for practices to strengthen their clinical workforce and improve capacity. However, its impact depends entirely on whether practices are able to turn the funding into actual hires and additional sessions. With patient demand continuing to grow and national expectations around access becoming more challenging, expanding GP capacity is becoming increasingly important. Practices that start thinking about recruitment now will be better positioned, particularly as competition for available GPs continues to intensify across the UK. Soka Partners are already in touch with many GPs across the UK who are open to a new salaried or locum role, so we are well positioned to provide support. 📩 If you would be interested in having a chat about how we can help, get in touch: 📱 07880 996257 📧 jason.dunn@soka-partners.com #GPRecruitment #PrimaryCare #GeneralPractice #GPJobs

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Recruitment aligned to genuine service demand delivers better outcomes than volume driven approaches. When recruitment reflects real operational needs, healthcare providers benefit from improved availability, stronger engagement, and more sustainable workforce support. Focused recruitment reduces churn and supports more reliable service planning. Clinical24 Staffing UK prioritises demand led recruitment to ensure that staffing solutions are relevant, responsive, and aligned with active service requirements. The right recruitment approach supports better care environments and long term workforce stability. #FocusedRecruitment #BetterOutcomes #HealthcareRecruitment #MSIRecruitment

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ICG Medical are pleased to announce we have officially acquired Positive Mental Health, a multi-framework approved specialist Mental Health Recruitment consultancy providing work for temporary and permanent Therapists, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, RMNs, Support Workers and Mental Health Professionals in private hospitals and the NHS across the United Kingdom.   This strategic acquisition strengthens our commitment to delivering quality healthcare solutions across primary, secondary, and homecare sectors. We welcome Victory Umunagbu, Warren Bull, Lauren Leeman Thusyanthan Maheswaran, ACCA and the team to the ICG Family. Thank you to everyone internally who has helped make this happen Olivia Plews Bethany Last Tamanash Chatterjee Alex d'Esterre FCIPD, FLPI, MIoL, Davina Ozanne Natasha Gregory Arrie Greeff. Well done all! ICG Medical Cromwell Medical Staffing Clinical Support Services Alliance (CSSA) Greenstaff Medical UK Greenstaff HomeCare UK Clinical24: England: Clinical24: Scotland Clinical24: Republic of Ireland: Celsus Group Affinity Care Southwest Ltd. Imperial Workforce Solutions I would like to personally thank Olivia Spruce the CEO and Gary Ashworth Chair for helping PMH in joining the ICG family. This leads us another step closer to our Vision of Improving Patient Care. #icg #fans #nursing #mentalhealth

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🏥 Spire Staffing: Partnering with Neutral Vendors to Strengthen Healthcare Staffing Solutions At Spire Staffing, we're committed to building strategic partnerships with neutral vendors who serve health and social care organisations across the UK. By collaborating with trusted neutral vendors, we expand our reach and capabilities to deliver: ✓ Rigorously vetted healthcare professionals (nurses, HCAs, senior carers, support workers) ✓ 24/7 on-call availability for emergency and short-notice coverage ✓ Standby staff services to prevent last-minute disruptions ✓ Full compliance with DBS, right-to-work, and training requirements ✓ Personal, responsive service tailored to facility needs Our partnership approach enables health and social care organisations to access reliable temporary staffing solutions through trusted vendor networks—ensuring quality, compliance, and consistency across the sector. Interested in partnering with us? Let's connect and explore how we can support your network. #HealthcareStaffing #TemporaryStaffing #StrategicPartnerships #SpireStaffing #HealthcareSolutions #SocialCare

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Industry Shake-Up: DRC Locums Declares Bankruptcy – What We Can All Learn Today, one of the UK’s largest and longest-standing healthcare staffing firms, DRC Locums, has declared bankruptcy. This is not just industry news but a powerful reminder to every agency, director, consultant, recruiter, and leader in our space. When a giant falls, the ground shakes. And when the ground shakes, professionals who are listening learn. Here are the hard truths this moment teaches us: 1. No company, no matter how established, is future-proof. Market conditions, pricing pressures, margin erosion, funding changes, and procurement shifts can bring down even the strongest brands. 2. Reputation is not a business model. Yesterday’s contracts won’t pay tomorrow’s payroll. In recruitment, you must constantly innovate, diversify, and deliver competitive value – every single day. 3. Cashflow is king, but forecasting is the throne it sits on. In healthcare recruitment especially, delayed payments, rising compliance costs, and shrinking margins make financial discipline a survival skill. 4. Clients and candidates remember how you behave when times are tough. In our industry, your brand isn’t your logo – it’s how people feel after working with you. 5. Complacency kills. If a market leader can crumble, that means the rest of us must stay sharper, smarter, more agile, and more operationally disciplined. As a director in the healthcare recruitment sector, I see this not as gossip – but as a wake-up call to the entire market: Stay lean. Stay innovative. Stay financially aware. Treat every contract like it must be earned again tomorrow. Never assume your company is too big to fail or too small to matter. When a firm the size of DRC Locums falls, the lesson is not in their collapse – but in the reality that the recruitment landscape is changing faster than many are adapting. We don’t control the market. We only control how prepared we are when the market shifts. To every agency owner and recruiter reading this: May this be the moment we look at our systems, our spending, our processes, our value proposition, and our resilience – and level them up. What happened to DRC Locums is business history. What we learn from it becomes our competitive advantage. #Recruitment #HealthcareRecruitment #IndustryNews #Leadership #BusinessStrategy #Resilience

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UK healthcare recruitment outsourcing streamlines hiring by connecting facilities with skilled professionals, enhancing workforce efficiency. 🌟 This approach reduces costs and improves patient care outcomes. 💼 #Standardplusbpo #madewithpredisai

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💥 Recruitment Reimagined… Contingent recruitment is a dead end for SME agencies. It’s unpredictable, unprofitable and unsustainable. The agencies still clinging to it? They’re watching opportunity pass them by. At NorthStar People, we’ve helped ambitious recruitment leaders break free — shifting to committed, retained, subscription and project RPO models that create genuine partnership, guaranteed revenue and consistent delivery. And the results speak for themselves: ⭐️ Fill rates up from 50% → 85% 🔁 1/3 of total revenue now recurring 📈 Volume projects of 8, 18 and 24 roles – all on 100% guaranteed fees This isn’t theory. It’s transformation — already happening inside agencies just like yours. If you’re ready to build a stronger, smarter and more sustainable business, reach out to me, co-founder at NorthStar People… it’s what we do. 🔥 The future belongs to agencies who commit — not those who gamble.

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💚 Complex Care in the UK: Progress or Just Promises? 💚 This month’s updates from across the NHS and local government have Clover Care Group Ltd thinking deeply about what “complex care” really means in 2025. On one hand, we are hearing big commitments: 🟩 Personalised care plans for all with complex needs by 2027 🟩 Community hubs integrating physical, mental and social care 🟩 Digital tools to support autonomy and real time support But when we talk to frontline teams, or families juggling multiple services, and you still hear the same struggles: 🟩 Delays in assessments 🟩 Gaps between health and social care 🟩 Exhausted carers holding it all together A new report shows local authorities are being pushed to fill NHS funding gaps for Continuing Healthcare, stretching already strained social care budgets to the limit. So yes, the ambition is there. But is the infrastructure? The workforce? The trust between services? If you are working in complex care, whether as a clinician, social worker, commissioner, or carer, I would love to hear what is actually working where you are. What is helping people live better lives? #ComplexCare #NHS #SocialCare #IntegratedCare #HealthAndCare #CHC #CoProduction #LeadershipInCare #PersonalisedCare

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As I approach my third decade in Staffing some lessons to Leaders and Aspriring Leaders only 6 as this isn’t a sermon…. -Coachability is the most underrated quality in your Staff. All of your teams should be assessed externally on this one quality because then you can increase their ceiling. -Do not wear your face. Bad things happen on any given day but be in control or at least appear in control. The bigger your company gets the more problems you will have. Enjoy them. -You must evolve. Embrace and be as good as you can on AI. Use coaches who are the best you can afford on all areas of your life that matter to you. Be better tomorrow. -Earn on your journey. If you will only make meaningful money when you exit then rewrite the script or just become a lifestyle business (no shame in that). Pick a figure and after 3 years make sure you earn it per year. Dont get involved in some Fugazi Recruitment scheme. -Be aware of who you are and what you offer. If you have 20 staff but 2 Top billers earn more than 70% of your total commission something isn’t working. The reality of your firm/shop might be delightful mediocrity. -Don’t get obsessed with Linked In or others. By all means be aware. Anyone who posts every other day on how great they are probably isn’t. Leaders can be vulnerable without always having an angle. Taking videos of yourself-good grief and do one. Anyways no agenda here I’m not hawking any product or service just musing !

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If you run healthcare recruitment like a cost centre, it will behave like one. Ben and I were lucky to host a webinar with the brilliant Chris and Emily from our partner DHU Healthcare who explained why and how they flipped that script. It was so good we decided to make it on-demand! By moving spend out of spray and pray job boards into AI powered social campaigns, they: 👉 Cut time to start from 98 to 59 days 👉 Took retention from 36% to 74% 👉 Grew from 1 to 20 clinical offers a month 👉 Unlocked over £2.5m in recruitment cost benefit All in one of the toughest hiring markets there is, across clinical and NHS 111 roles. Emily and Chris walked us through the system behind those numbers, from always on campaigns for passive clinicians to the data that lets you turn hiring from reactive to repeatable. If you are under pressure to fill shifts, protect care standards and prove ROI on every pound of hiring spend, this is worth half an hour of your week. 🔗 Sign up here to learn how DHU unlocked £2.5m in recruitment cost benefits and cut time to start by 40% - https://lnkd.in/eQZwUSRq #healthcarerecruitment #NHSjobs #talentacquisition #recruitmentmarketing #HRtech

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This article by Jen Upton really highlights why treating every single person in a dental practice as part of the team, even if they are just there for the day, can bring so many benefits to everyone involved, including a practice's lifeblood, their patients.💡

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Healthcare recruitment in 2026 is shaping up to be a year of opportunity across care and support roles.🌟 From rising demand and flexible working to faster hiring and improved pay, the sector continues to evolve, and so do the opportunities for healthcare professionals.💙 👉 Read our latest blog to see what to expect in the year ahead. https://lnkd.in/e5TSVnCn

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Healthcare recruitment in 2026 is shaping up to be a year of opportunity across care and support roles.🌟 From rising demand and flexible working to faster hiring and improved pay, the sector continues to evolve, and so do the opportunities for healthcare professionals.💙 👉 Read our latest blog to see what to expect in the year ahead. https://lnkd.in/e5TSVnCn

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Running a care agency isn’t easy. Staffing challenges, compliance stress, rising recruitment costs. There’s a LOT to juggle 🤹 But what if better training could actually reduce staff turnover? Studies show investing in quality training can reduce turnover by up to 10% and improve overall care delivery. Agencies using our online LMS Care Academy are seeing: ✅ Lower staff churn ✅ Teams that feel confident and supported ✅ BIG savings in recruitment and onboarding ✅ Better care outcomes Want to see how this could look at your agency? 👉 Let’s catch up: https://hubs.la/Q03FrJ5s0

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What’s really happening behind the scenes in UK healthcare recruitment? On HealthETalks, we speak to healthcare leaders, recruiters, and frontline professionals about the real issues shaping the sector. Workforce shortages. Career development. Retention challenges. Burnout. The future of hiring. These are honest conversations with people who live it every day. If you care about healthcare, this is worth your time. 👉 Watch on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/g3Pp8ypm #HealthETalks #HealthcarePodcast #UKHealthcare #HealthcareLeadership

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The NHS 10-Year Workforce Plan isn’t just a policy document — it’s a call to action. With its focus on a new workforce model, major training and apprenticeship expansion, and a shift toward home-grown talent, the plan sets out big ambitions for the future of healthcare staffing. Our 17th NHS Workforce Conference: Future-Proofing NHS Care will bring these priorities to life — exploring how national strategy becomes local reality. We’ll look at: 🔹 Building workforce adaptability to support systemic change 🔹 Expanding skills and career pathways to meet future demand 🔹 Retaining and developing UK-trained staff while boosting diversity This is more than discussion — it’s about practical solutions, shared learning, and preparing the NHS to deliver high-quality care for decades to come. 📅 Join us and be part of shaping the next chapter in the NHS workforce journey 👇 https://loom.ly/2oW2IXs #NHSWorkforce #NHS10YearPlan #HealthcareLeadership #FutureOfCare #NHSCareers #HealthcareInnovation

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'unravel' - verb; investigate and solve or explain (something complicated or puzzling). also 👇 Solving frustration caused by not knowing the answers to common questions a recruiter or business has. Exploring and utilising data to understand what the market looks like. Great sitting down with James Read to talk about who Unravel-UK are.

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