NHS Workforce Alliance Workforce Improvement Services (WIS) (RM6163)

31/03/2022 - 31/03/2026

Framework Reference Number: RM6163

The NHS Workforce Alliance's Workforce Improvement Services framework seeks to connect you with experienced, informed workforce partners with the expertise to understand the challenges of NHS staffing and help create and embed the right solutions for your organisations

The Workforce Improvement Services (WIS) framework provides you with the ability to contract multiple workforce solutions under a single contract, managed strategically and sympathetically to each other to deliver the best outcomes. 

Workforce solutions covered by WIS include: 

  • Temporary and permanent clinical staffing
  • International recruitment
  • Bank staff recruitment and management
  • Non-clinical recruitment. 

WIS also places a strong emphasis on upskilling trust staff, knowledge transfer, and exit planning; ensuring long-term sustainable improvements. 

  • Provision of scalable solutions, from smaller, focused commissioned services up to management of entire workforce solutions for trusts or groups of trusts such as ICS footprints
  • Ability to deliver an entire range of workforce solutions via one overarching contract, with accompanying KPI's, contractural requirements and expectations
  • Development and upskilling of customer's systems, staff and workforce departments to ensure long-term and sustainable improvements
  • Alignment with current policies and strategies including the NHS People Plan, the PTOM programme, the NHS Long Term Plan and the NHS ICS programme of work
  • Support in reducing reliance on temporary staff, instead focusing on permanent recruitment and staff retention. 
  • Charkos UK Ltd
  • Health Care Resourcing Group Ltd
  • Holt Doctors Ltd
  • ID Medical Group Ltd
  • Litmus Workforce Solutions Ltd
  • Medacs Healthcare plc
  • NHS Professionals Ltd
  • Pulse Healthcare Ltd
  • Reed Specialist Recruitment Ltd
  • Retinue Solutions
  • TXM Healthcare. 

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