The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, delivered this year’s Spring Budget 2024 to the House of Commons on March 6, 2024. Our latest article highlights the Chancellor’s key announcements. Overview of the Spring Budget 2024 The Chancellor’s Spring Budget 2024 focused on tax cuts for parents and workers and […]
Spring Budget 2024: The Chancellors Key Announcements » Read the full story
Nobody likes the idea of a tax and National Insurance hike, but from April 2022, employees and employers will be expected to contribute towards the new health and social care plan. Umbrella employees will be subjected to a double-whammy, as we’re going to explain in this article. Keep reading, and
How will the increase in National Insurance affect umbrella company employees? » Read the full story
A report published on the 26th November 2020 by HMRC discusses marketed tax avoidance schemes, and it makes for some fascinating reading. Entitled ‘Use of marketed tax avoidance schemes in the UK’, HMRC cover the size of the UK’s tax avoidance market, promoters of tax avoidance schemes, and what HMRC
As if people haven’t had enough to deal with these past few months, news reaches us here at UCHQ that Umbrella Companies are, once again, finding themselves in the news for all the wrong reasons. This time it is a group of Umbrella Companies who have been deliberately targeting NHS
Cowboys and Covid-19 » Read the full story
Jeremy Hunt’s comments about agencies supplying NHS staff at ‘rip-off’ prices have ruffled feathers. Kevin Green of REC
Does the government understand NHS agency contractors? » Read the full story
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.
The NHS needs you – if you’re a freelancer, that is » Read the full story
The REC Healthcare division has welcomed recommendations from the Royal College of Nursing on ways to maintain nurse/patient ratios.
Do we need a nurse-patient quota system in our hospitals? » Read the full story
Last week, Vince Cable laid down the Government’s plan to get rid of some of the bureaucracy associated with Criminal Records Bureau checks.
Umbrella company contractor CRB results to go online » Read the full story
The NHS is turning to highly skilled limited company contractors and umbrella company contractors, according to Badenoch and Clark.
IT contractors set to benefit from NHS and outsource contracts » Read the full story
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.
NHS Trusts expenditure on umbrella company locums increases dramatically » Read the full story
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.
Will NHS reforms benefit umbrella company contractors? » Read the full story
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.
Umbrella company locum doctors should be welcomed » Read the full story
Rather than reversing the trend for late payments, a new directive from the EU could actually make matters worse, according to the FPB.
Contractors may have to wait longer for settlement » Read the full story
In a recent announcement by the Government, its Spending Challenge has borne fruit in that three ideas submitted to it through both public sector workers and members of the public will soon be implemented as new governmental policy.
Government implements savings regime » Read the full story
Recruitment agencies supplying staff to hospitals have hit back at the unions who claim that recruiters are charging outrageous fees.
Proposed NHSP sell off causes anger at UNISON » Read the full story
