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NHS contractor demand up

24.08.12

A company specialising in NHS recruitment has claimed that the demand for IT contractors within the service is increasing, despite the economy being in decline.

Managing director of MX20, Don Tomlinson, told ComputerWeekly.co.uk:

"Clinical Commissioning Groups and Health Informatics Services organisations are driving the commercialisation of the NHS, making it more effective through IM&T*, and in so doing fuelling the demand for talented professionals".

Tomlinson argues that the NHS is a much better organisation to work for nowadays. They offer better pay, have more experience of working with temporary staff and they undertake high-tech projects.

He also added that experience, which was once seen as vital for working for the NHS, is no longer as important for many of the roles available to contractors.

"Our challenge is to get the range and numbers of opportunities over to those members of the IT professional community that might be struggling to secure good opportunities and wages. The old ideas about working in the NHS still linger and we have got to change that view," he explained.

The rise in the number of temporary workers within the NHS is one example of the demand for contractors being maintained despite many companies cutting back

*IM&T = Information Management & Technology

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