Nursing Personnel Nursing Agency Update

Nursing Personnel Nursing Agency Update

It’s been a busy month at our Nursing Agency with a great deal happening across the UK. Nursing Personnel are delighted to be working with a number of NHS Trusts across the UK to secure agency nurses to cover winter pressures.

As a result Nursing Personnel can now offer block bookings in most locations with excellent pay-rates for nurses looking for guaranteed work. The specialities required by the hospitals cover most clinical areas including general medicine and accident and emergency. Across many locations accommodation is available. An example of pay rates we can offer nurses include:

Nursing Agency Job Locations and Pay Rates

South Yorkshire:  Day Rates £28.00, Nights £31.00 P/H

North Lincolnshire: Day Rates £27.00 / £28 A&E

Warwickshire:  Day Rates £26.00, Nights £32.00 P/H

Devon:  Day Rates £40.00, Nights £45.00 P/H

Lincolnshire:  Day Rates £25.00, Nights £27.00 P/H

Cumbria:  Day Rates £27.00, Nights £31.00 P/H

London:  Day Rates £22.00, Nights £ 25.00 P/H

Oxfordshire:  Day Rates £24.50, Nights £ 30.00 P/H

West Midlands: Day Rates £25.00 Nights £32.00 P/H

North Midlands: Day £29.00 Night £34.00 P/H

The above is just a sample of competitive pay-rates across the UK. Rates quoted are umbrella and are subject to change.  For a full list of the available work please click here to see all of Nursing Personnel’s nursing agency jobs.

Nursing Personnel have just been awarded a place on the Barchester Healthcare preferred supplier list and as a result we will be able to offer work to agency nurses and healthcare assistants across the UK to many Barchester Healthcare sites. Some of the areas that we will be supplying into cover:

Yorkshire, Worcestershire, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Lancashire, Shrewsbury, Durham, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Durham and many more locations. Excellent pay rates are available in the above locations and for private sector.

Registration Bonus

As an incentive to attract agency nurses, Nursing Personnel are extending our registration bonus of £1,000 (terms apply) for all new nurses registering. This is a limited time offer so we would encourage all nurses interested in receiving the bonus to register and start working as soon as possible. If you would like more information please register online or call our offices on 033 3043 6779.

To view some of our recent blog posts feel free to click here. Current posts include an article on HMRC chasing nurses for tax on umbrella loan schemes and a large cash injection from the government to assist accident and emergency departments over the winter months.

NHS Winter Pressure Funding and A&E Nurses

£145 Million NHS Winter Pressure Funding & A&E Nurses

The government has announced it is allocating an additional £ 145 million pounds to inject into the NHS some of which will be allocated to the struggling Accident and Emergency departments across the UK. A portion of the money will be used to upgrade A & E departments, A&E nurses as well as providing an additional 900 beds.

It has been reported the University Hospital of North Midlands will receive £8.8 million which will go towards two new wards. East Kent Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust will get £6.4 million to increase the A&E capacity at the William Harvey and Queen Elizabeth hospitals and the Queen Mother Hospitals. Lancashire Teaching Hospitals will receive money to upgrade emergency day care and redesign the ambulance handover.

Matt Hancock the minister for health has stated “Staff put in a huge amount of work preparing our health service for the challenge of treating more patients over winter and it’s right that we make sure they have the resources they need so people receive the care they deserve. That’s why I will be providing an additional £145m now to upgrade wards, redevelop A&Es and further improve emergency care in time for winter.”

Niall Dickson, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said the funding would “make a difference” and was an “acknowledgement of the intolerable strain faced by too many patients and staff last winter”.

Nursing Personnel Predict a Very Challenging Winter

Nursing Personnel are predicting this winter is going to be the most challenging on record and the most demanding for hospitals and A&E nurses. One of the main factors is the shortage of nurses available across the UK. Mr Richard Drax South Dorset MP stated in the commons recently “ England is facing a desperate shortage of nurses” He has stated the RCN has calculated there are 40,000 vacancies for nurses across the UK. He has also stated “At the same time, he said, nurses were leaving the profession due to “relentless pressures” and feeling that their “professional registrations were at risk because they were struggling to cope with demand”.

Nursing Agencies Support Role

Nursing agencies will also play an important part in assisting and supporting the NHS through these difficult months. Nursing agencies supply NHS hospitals with nurses across all specialities including A&E nurses. Other factors that have made it challenging include the recent price caps brought in by NHSI reducing the amount agencies can pay agency nurses. This is also coupled with IR35 rules restricting contractors working through their personal service companies. In many cases nurses often have to travel long distances to cover shifts at short notice and pay for accommodation. Where a nurse is deemed inside IR35 they can no longer claim these expenses travel and accommodation expenses making it not worth their while travelling to cover the shift.

£1,000 Nursing Agency Registration Bonus

To assist the NHS through these challenging times Nursing Personnel are recruiting nurses nationwide. As an incentive to work through Nursing Personnel we are offering nurses a £ 1,000 (terms apply) registration bonus to work with Nursing Personnel. Nursing Personnel are a NHS approved NHS framework agency and are working with many Trusts across the UK to bring down the cost of expensive off framework agencies.

For more information call us on 033 3043 6779 or to register click here.

Head RCN Nurse Resigns Over Nurse Pay Deal

 RCN Head Resigns Over Pay Deal
The head of the RCN resigned this week amid the wrong information been given to thousands of nurses on a new nurse pay deal. Last month Janet Davies apologised for informing members they would receive an immediate 3% pay uplift this summer. The actual position is only 50% would receive an increase the rest would have to wait until completion of an annual appraisal.

Many nurses took to social media to express their frustration and having been given wrong information. One nurse was quoted “This nurse pay deal will solve all our problems!!, I am completely underwhelmed at receiving my 35 pence increase. I will try not to spend it all at once!!” Ms Davies will now step down from her post at the end of August. The RCN is carrying out a full enquiry to the events.

The RCNs official statement is “The RCN and Janet Davies have decided to part ways by mutual agreement,” said Maria Trewern, chairwoman of the RCN council. “We thank her for all her service to the college as chief executive and general secretary over the past three years, and wish her well.”

Ms Davis said ““It has been a great honour to represent my profession at the highest level, and I am proud of the achievements the college has made over the past three years against a difficult political backdrop. I wish my colleagues and our membership all the best for the future, and look forward to taking on some new challenges.“

Not All Bad Financial News For Nurse Pay- £1000 Bonus

However it’s not all bad news for nurses on the financial side of things. While substantive nurses are disappointed over the nurse pay deal Nursing Personnel are happy to announce our £1,000 registration bonus (terms apply) for nurses registering and working through our nursing agency. With over 33,000 vacant nursing jobs in the NHS across the UK, Nursing Personnel are expecting this winter to see some of the highest  demand for agency nurses on record. With demand increasing for agency nurses Nursing Personnel are recruiting all across the UK. To make our agency as attractive as possible we are offering the £ 1000 bonus (subject to conditions). With excess of a thousand agency nurse jobs daily on offer from hospitals all across the UK Nursing Personnel can almost guarantee work for Nurses looking for agency work.

Agency Nurses Work With Nursing Personnel

Nursing Personnel are an approved NHS framework nursing agency and are working with NHS Trusts across the UK. We can offer very competitive pay rates and block bookings in many geographical locations. To see the locations we cover click here.

For more information on our £1000 registration bonus ( terms apply) click here or call us on 033 3043 6779.

Nursing Personnel Nursing Agency Offer £1000 Registration Bonus for Agency Nurses

£1000 Nursing Agency  & Agency Nurse Registration Bonus

Terms and Conditions Apply

Nursing Personnel Nursing Agency

Nursing Personnel Nursing Agency are upping the game in the run up to winter pressures to recruit agency nurses. We are expecting this winter to be one of the busiest for our sector. Such is the demand for nurses we are offering a £1000 (terms apply) registration bonus to attract agency nurse to work for Nursing Personnel.

Below is just a snap shot of the headlines being reported in the media including the Nursing Times the BBC and The Guardian over the last few weeks. It has also been reported the NHS has over 33,000 unfilled nursing posts across the UK:

NHS in England facing deepening staffing crisis, figures show

The Guardian-26 Jul 2018

Call for action on social care nurse shortages as population ages

Nursing Times-13 Aug 2018

New nursing student numbers fall for second year running after end of …

Nursing Times– 17Aug 2018

Nurse shortages close Aberdeen dementia wards

BBC News – 5 Aug 2018

NHS increasingly desperate for nurses and midwives as applications …

Telegraph.co.uk– 27 Jul 2018

Shortage of nurses leads to moving beds from ward

The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald-9 Aug 2018

500 sick children forced to travel after services cut in staff crisis

Express.co.uk– 8 Aug 2018

New Nursing Agency Contracts

Nursing Personnel Nursing Agency are winning new contracts weekly to supply NHS Trusts across the UK. With preferred supplier status on many contracts demand for nurses has never been higher. With the colder months just weeks away we are expecting demand for agency nurses to break records this winter. However there is no point in having NHS agency nurse contracts if we cannot supply.

Often nursing agencies are criticised for ripping off hospitals with exorbitant fees. However Nursing Personnel are working with many Trusts across the UK to reduce agency cost by removing high cost nursing agencies.

The last year has been a difficult and challenging one for all agency nurses. With NHSI price caps and IR35 challenges agency nurses have been on the receiving end of restrictions and government reforms. However agency nurses are still expected to travel often long distances to cover urgent staffing shortages often spending time away from families and loved ones.

As an incentive to recruit and attract agency nurses Nursing Personnel are offering a £1,000 bonus to nurses that are willing to work with our agency. With thousands of hospital requirements being received daily Nursing Personnel can offer agency jobs for nurses in most geographical locations across the UK. We have some of the most competitive rates in the market. With preferred supplier status we can also offer block bookings and in some cases assistance with accommodation.

Register for Agency Nurse Bonus

For more information on the above feel free to call our offices on 033 3043 6779 or to register click here.

Surge In Demand For A&E Agency Nurses

A&E Agency Nurses Under Pressure

Nursing Personnel has seen the demand for A&E agency nurses increase substantially.

The recent heat wave has seen a huge surge in the number of patients attending the A&E department in NHS hospitals across the UK. Recent reports have highlighted that a total number of 2,176,022 people attended the A&E departments in July, which is the highest number since records began.

The massive surge in patients attending also had a negative impact on patient waiting times. In July only 89.3% of patients were seen within four hours. The NHS target is all patients are to be seen within 4 hours. This target has not been met since July 2015.

To put this into context there were 41,553 instances of delays of four hours or more. This is up on 4,000 for the same period last year. There were also 147 instances where patients had to wait more than 12 hours to be seen in July. One Trust reported in early August an average of 435 patients attending per day. This was up 11% on the previous year.

Many issues were a direct result of the heat. Other factors included dehydration (from not drinking enough water), heat stroke, exhaustion, and breathing problems. Kings Hospital in London reported that at 10.00 pm on the 31^st of July there was a queue of ambulances outside the accident and emergency. This would normally be seen in the middle of February as a result of winter pressures. Paramedics in some instances set up drips and looked after patients on trolleys in the corridors of one of London’s busiest hospitals. In the midlands and the north of the UK they also experienced a huge increase in patients attending the A&E departments. GP surgeries also reported record levels of patients attending surgeries as a result of the very hot weather.

A&E Agency Nurse Demand Surges

Nursing Personnel can also confirm we have seen a huge increase in demand for agency nurses in the A&E departments across the UK for July and August. This is consistent with hospitals being under huge pressure to staff A&E wards with nurses as a result of the increase in patients attending the A&E departments.

With over 33,000 unfilled nursing jobs across the UK, it is inevitable that many of the vacant nurse jobs will be in the A&E departments. Nursing Personnel are actively recruiting agency nurses to help cover the demand for NHS agency A&E nurse jobs. Nursing Personnel are receiving hundreds of requirements daily across the UK for A&E nurse jobs. Such is the pressure and demand some hospitals are offering exceptional agency nurse pay rates as the hospitals have to have appropriate staffing levels to meet patient care standards and patient safety. To attract nurses to our nursing agency Nursing Personnel are offering a registration bonus of £500 for a limited time only. For more information on our agency nurse bonus click here including full terms and conditions.

Agency Nurses Contact Us

If you are an agency nurse looking for agency nurse jobs in A&E please contact us as we have an abundance of work across the UK. For more information please call us on 033 3043 6779 or to register click here.