INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT: Harbour – The safer recruitment solution for social care

For over 17 years, Harbour has partnered with businesses of all sizes, including many in the healthcare sector, to build recruitment and onboarding systems that tackle real-world hiring challenges, such as strict compliance, high applicant volumes and tight budgets. Our approach is simple: deliver powerful technology that’s easy to use, highly configurable and always focused on business […]
How we solve the care sector’s staffing crisis by investing in our people

In the wake of the 2024 annual State of Adult Social Care report, Paul O’Rourke, Managing Director of Next Stage, emphasises the crucial need to address high staff turnover in the adult social care industry to invest in both individual employees and improve the quality of care they provide… In a sector where continuity of care […]
Care England initiative seeks to address adult social care staffing issues

Care England, the representative body of independent providers of adult social care in England, has launched an end-to-end solution to help care providers and Local Authorities solve the adult social care workforce recruitment and retention conundrum. Professor Martin Green OBE, Chief Executive of Care England, said: “The adult social care workforce remains in a deep-rooted […]
Understanding the crisis in global healthcare

Global economic and political turmoil and the climate change crisis may dominate headlines, but arguably the biggest threat to global wellbeing is the state of our health care services. In his latest book, global healthcare leader Dr. Mark Britnell, cites a World Health Organisation estimate that by 2030 the world will be short of approximately 18 million health […]