Spring Budget 2024: The Chancellors Key Announcements
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, delivered this year’s Spring Budget 2024 to the House of Commons…
How will the increase in National Insurance affect umbrella company employees?
Nobody likes the idea of a tax and National Insurance hike, but from April 2022, employees and employers…
HMRC issue warning in new corporate report covering marketed tax avoidance schemes – “please be vigilant”
A report published on the 26th November 2020 by HMRC discusses marketed tax avoidance schemes, and it makes…
Cowboys and Covid-19
As if people haven’t had enough to deal with these past few months, news reaches us here at…
Does the government understand NHS agency contractors?
Jeremy Hunt's comments about agencies supplying NHS staff at 'rip-off' prices have ruffled feathers. Kevin Green of REC
The NHS needs you – if you’re a freelancer, that is
The NHS is in dire need of freelancers and contractors working in the healthcare field in order to provide proper levels of care, according to one expert.
Do we need a nurse-patient quota system in our hospitals?
The REC Healthcare division has welcomed recommendations from the Royal College of Nursing on ways to maintain nurse/patient ratios.
Umbrella company contractor CRB results to go online
Last week, Vince Cable laid down the Government’s plan to get rid of some of the bureaucracy associated with Criminal Records Bureau checks.
IT contractors set to benefit from NHS and outsource contracts
The NHS is turning to highly skilled limited company contractors and umbrella company contractors, according to Badenoch and Clark.
NHS Trusts expenditure on umbrella company locums increases dramatically
The Royal College of Surgeons warns that government cutbacks have led to some hospitals using inexperienced locum surgeons as consultants. As well as a lack of experience, the organisation says some foreign locums do not have a good grasp of the English language.
Will NHS reforms benefit umbrella company contractors?
More than 75% of the top interim managers in the NHS believe the government’s efficiency savings will impact negatively on the delivery of frontline services, according to Interim Partners.
Umbrella company locum doctors should be welcomed
The REC recently hit back at the way the Department of Health focuses on the money that is spent on locum staff instead of concentrating on the advantages they bring to the National Health Service.
