DH abandons privatisation plans for NHS Professionals

[Northerner]

The Department of Health has abandoned plans to sell off NHS Professionals, the government-owned agency that supplies staff to the health service.

In November last year, the government decided to sell a majority share in the company as a potential path to “providing it with the extra expertise, technology and investment it needed to work with more hospitals and drive greater savings for the NHS”.

Shortlisted companies in the running, including Staffline, expected an announcement on whether they had won the contract in the coming weeks. But in a striking U-turn, health minister Philip Dunne stated that “after careful consideration” it had been concluded that none of the offers received “reflected the company’s growing potential and improved performance”.

Therefore, Dunne said that NHS Professionals will remain in “wholly public ownership”.

http://www.nationalhealthexecutive....ons-privatisation-plans-for-nhs-professionals

 

[mikeyB]

Well, what do you know - the government has developed a small degree of common sense. And, of course, shame.

 

[Copepod]

Very relieved to hear about the change of heart / coming to sense.
A long time ago, I worked part time in NHS, while studying my BSc, and was very much happier doing this through local health authority staff bank than I would have through a private agency, which would have taken a cut from the money paid by NHS.