TRUSTED PARTNERS TO THE HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SECTORS
Our technology and expert team deliver cost savings, compliance assurance, visibility and control, and continuity of worker supply to health and care organisations.
Sector specialists
With unrivalled specialist sector knowledge, a global supply chain, and our leading proprietary technology suite, our solutions deliver tailored support where you need it most.
All our solutions focus on four key areas of improvement; cost, control, compliance, and continuity of supply.
We blend recruitment, procurement, and technology to create a solution that addresses your changing needs and puts you back in control. We know how to optimise all aspects of your talent acquisition strategy, helping you fill roles more quickly with the best candidates—and still deliver cost savings.
Healthcare
With increasing workforce shortages, rising costs, and evolving healthcare priorities, providers across the UK need strategic workforce solutions that ensure continuity of care while improving efficiency. Retinue helps organisations meet their workforce challenges while aligning with national and regional healthcare strategies, ensuring financial sustainability and workforce resilience.
We support healthcare providers by:
- Optimising staff banks to reduce reliance on agency workers and improve shift coverage.
- Managing agency supply chains to improve fill rates, reduce costs, and ensure compliance.
- Delivering sustainable cost-saving initiatives, including bank first models, high-cost agency switch projects, and, where eligible, direct engagement (DE) to maximise available VAT-efficient savings.
- Strengthening permanent recruitment pipelines to attract and retain top healthcare talent.
- Providing workforce consultancy services, offering strategic insights into workforce planning, compliance, and operational efficiencies.
With over £850 million in workforce spend under management, processing 14.8 million workforce hours annually, and delivering over £20 million in savings each year, Retinue provides smarter, data-driven workforce solutions tailored to the needs of healthcare providers across the UK.
Your alternative to an agency-led solution
Our solutions include Neutral Vendor, Managed Bank, Blended MSP, RPO (recruitment process outsourcing), international recruitment, resourcing diagnostics, wellbeing programs and patient flow modelling.
Retinue led the sector in neutral vendor and RPO solutions. We provide NHS trusts and private providers with a competitive supply chain and the technology and expertise to manage it effectively, minimising costs when the pressure on both resource and on budgets has never been higher.
Recently, Retinue collaborated with five NHS Scotland Health Boards to reduce agency spend. This resulted in a saving of £4.5 million over a three-year period.
Social Care
We build customised talent acquisition solutions to address the needs of the individual provider, understanding the importance of quality of supply to your beneficiaries. All to support local authorities, NHS Trusts, housing associations, and private and voluntary care providers.
At Retinue, we work with social care providers to:
- Reduce spend on expensive agency staff by optimising the use of your own resources
- Improve fill rates with strong account management and supply chain support
- Embed governance protocols including assuring quality and compliance
- Reduce the use of ad-hoc workers by building a loyal flexible workforce
- Deliver data insights to your stakeholders to allow them to optimise budgets and improve productivity
How it works
We build workforce solutions that balance cost control, compliance and continuity across health and social care. Our expertise spans bank, neutral vendor, hybrid managed services, direct engagement and statement of work models, delivering tailored strategies that meet the demands of care settings.
Our VMS technology and integrated modules for direct engagement, direct sourcing, compliance, and worker communications give providers full visibility and control. By building strong talent pools and managing suppliers effectively we reduce reliance on expensive agency staffing, ensuring a stable workforce that improves continuity of care and patient outcomes.
With automation and real-time data insights, our technology enables care providers to manage demand, reduce inefficiencies and forecast staffing needs. Our approach strengthens flexibility, governance and compliance, ensuring care services remain fully supported and financially sustainable.
We partner with NHS trusts, social care providers and local authorities so they can focus on delivering care while we handle workforce planning, supplier engagement and cost control. Click into our case studies below to see how we have made a difference.