NHS Professionals National Bank™ for healthcare organisations

Integrated, cost-effective solutions for the NHS

Across the NHS, healthcare staffing leaders are looking to reduce agency spend and find more ways to manage workforce challenges effectively. It has never been more important to adopt flexibility and easily implement technology solutions to address the wide range of ever-changing requirements.

Created to respond to these needs, the NHS Professionals National Bank™ is an agency alternative offering that fills the gap between an NHS healthcare organisation’s (including Trusts and ICBs) own staff bank provision and the use of external agencies, providing an integrated, cost-effective solution to NHS temporary staffing requirements and greater access to talent.

NHS Professionals is uniquely owned by the Department of Health and Social Care, keeping any staffing spend within the system.

Reasons to choose the NHS Professionals National Bank™

As the leading provider of flexible workers to the NHS, NHS Professionals has the experience and knowledge to deliver this innovative service, continuing our mission to help NHS healthcare organisations reduce external agency spend and create a continuity of care for patients.

By choosing the NHS Professionals National Bank™, NHS healthcare organisations will receive the following benefits:

• ✔Cost efficiency: More cost-effective than external agencies.
• ✔Pay-as-you-go: If there is no staffing requirement, there is no cost.
• ✔Seamless interface: Integrated technology and systems reducing Trust administration.
• ✔Staff reporting: Full visibility through business intelligence.
• ✔Seamless implementation: Fully onboarded solution with minimal resource required.
• ✔Partnering: Supports collaborative working without wholesale change.
• ✔Recruitment: We partner with you to identify local staffing needs and build bespoke recruitment campaigns based on our findings.
• ✔Support: Access to additional staff to support your existing bank.

Access additional staff to support your existing bank

NHS Professionals National Bank™ maximises the opportunity for NHS organisations to utilise healthcare professionals where needed and provide new career opportunities in a variety of healthcare settings, to retain talented people in the NHS and support patient care.

This is not a traditional managed service - it is an intermediate bank workforce solution deployed through seamless integration with existing rostering technology. It acts as an extension to the current bank in place, instead of utilising external healthcare recruitment agencies.

We work with healthcare organisations, such as NHS Trusts and Integrated Care Boards (ICBs), to identify local staffing needs and meet these needs through our talent pool of dedicated National Bank Members.

Many already choose our National Bank service

Since launching the service in June 2021, we have partnered with the following organisations:

• Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust
• Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
• Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Trust
• Central And North West London NHS Foundation Trust
• James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Trust
• North Central London Integrated Care Board
• Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
• Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
• The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
• The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust

We continue to work with new NHS Trusts and healthcare organisations in-line with the expansion of this service.

Real stories, real success

"Having NHS Professionals on board with their National Bank solution has made a positive impact on reducing our reliance on agency after the pandemic. The National Bank Team have been proactive and supportive throughout and this effort has been a true collaboration. We have appreciated their assistance with the removal of off-framework agency usage. NHS Professionals are now supporting us with the next phase of the agency reduction plan to ensure our patients receive continuous levels of service. We would highly recommend using the National Bank as an additional Bank resource."

Gareth Pugh - Deputy Director of Finance at Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Read about how we supported Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to successfully reduce their agency spend.