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Government health leaders threaten ‘rip-off temporary staffing agencies’

NHS trusts and integrated care boards (ICBs) are being urged by government health leaders to eradicate agency spending to build on a £1bn fall in spending in 2024-25.

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News

REC CEO hits back at government cuts to agency spend

Government calls to eliminate agency spend at the NHS have received a fiery response from the Recruitment & Employment Confederation.

Portfolio Payroll partners with CIPP to drive industry evolution

Payroll recruitment agency Portfolio Payroll is part of a newly unveiled strategic partnership with The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP).

ContractsHR 3 June 2025

£1.5bn defence spending will create highly-skilled jobs in the UK

The UK government is to create more than 1,000 new jobs as a result of a £1.5bn defence investment.

Staying with one employer outdated, says hiring expert

A leader of the newly launched UK Hiring Taskforce sees a future short-term employment environment similar to the so-called gig economy in which organisations themselves are not long-lived because of rapidly changing technology.

People 27 May 2025

Knowledge

UK-INDIA FTA: Financially beneficial for firms to second Indian workers to the UK

Following the news that the UK and India have agreed a trade deal, what will that mean for mobility of workers?

Business advice: lead generation

Identifying sales leads during a conversation.

7 May 2025

Profiles

 

Profile: Hitting the right D&I note

Janeace Thompson, or Jay-T as she is known, is the first black woman to be appointed director at

16 January 2024

Profile: Signifying success

As this year’s recipient of the Recruiter Awards ‘Agency Recruitment Leader of the Year’

IT/Telecoms 25 January 2021

Opinion

The Last Word May/June 2025: Alan Furley

We’re not in the same market anymore – and I don’t just mean the businesses we serve.

7 May 2025
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Soundbites: May/June 2025

Ruth Howbrook-Archer

IT/Telecoms, HR 7 May 2025
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The Last Word March/April 2025: Sid Barnes

The holy grail of profitability in recruitment businesses was always the ‘a third, a third, a thi

4 March 2025

In Depth

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Navigating the shifting recruitment landscape in the US

For UK recruitment agencies with US clients or those placing candidates in the US, potential chan

7 May 2025
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AI agents are coming

Recruiters are used to being at the coalface of digital revolutions.

7 May 2025

Recruiter's HOT 100 companies 2024

Despite a challenging year in some respects for the UK recruitment sector last year, the 2024

4 March 2025

Lighter side

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Social recruiting: May/June 2025

Whether you’ve been trekking up a hill, making a team look brill, donating chocs to fill [a foodbank] or walking a mill-ion steps, you lot have been busy!

Our Melica turns out to be lukewarm rather than hot stuff on The Apprentice

Sorry to ruin your weekend, but recruitment’s representative in the BBC’s The Apprentice is no longer the red-hot business partner for entrepreneur Lord Sugar.

IT/Telecoms 20 March 2025

Are we banking on Melica for The Apprentice?

The BBC’s The Apprentice train rumbles on, and in the latest episode candidates were charged with delivering a banking app for children.

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