The Altrix team knew that the NHS spends over £5 billion pounds on agency healthcare professionals a year.
We also knew that 75 per cent of healthcare professionals work through an agency at some point.
And, with a team that has extensive experience of working within tech, recruitment and the National Health Service, we knew that there was something we could do about it.
So we looked at how we could change how that system works, starting with how healthcare professionals book their shifts. And we also looked at how we might use technology to help our clients save money.
From this, Altrix was born.
Now Altrix Group, we have four major goals:
Automating temporary recruitment for our clients
Considerably cutting agency costs
Increasing hourly rates for healthcare professionals by reducing agency margins
Creating a marketplace with pricing transparency
We use our NHS experience to make sure all our healthcare professionals have the relevant qualifications and are fully compliant before they book their shift.
And our tech experience allows us to enable workers to self-book their shifts, giving them complete control of how and when they work.
The result is happier members, who feel more valued and are more reliable. Which, in turn, also benefits our hospital trust partners and private hospitals.
It’s just one of the reasons we’re continuing to grow: we now work with over a quarter of NHS trusts, delivering tens of thousands of hours a week.
And an incredible 98 per cent of our members now use our app to book shifts.
We’re delighted our app has been embraced so quickly. We’re incredibly proud of our team who have made it happen.
And we’re also incredibly proud of the thousands of healthcare professionals using our app. Of how they’re taking back control of how they balance their work and lifestyle choices and needs – one shift at a time.
Why have we done this?
Altrix was founded and designed to revolutionise and modernise the nursing agency experience – using technology to democratise and improve the service for healthcare professionals and to support lower cost provision into the NHS. We wanted to broaden that offering to a larger member base and to be able to reach and supply more of the NHS across the UK.
What does this mean for members?
Following a period of integration all healthcare professionals working through any of the Altrix Group brands will be able to book shifts or lines of work through our easy-to-use automated Altrix App.
The Altrix app empowers all members to take back control of their work life in one click no matter which brand you worked for; all members will have all shifts available to them to book in real time 24 hrs a day.
Members will still have access to an advisor who can be contacted via telephone, WhatsApp or by email. Plus, all members benefit from our industry leading Altrix+ loyalty programme and excellent referral scheme incentives.
What it means to us and the wider Industry
By incorporating the two great brands of TFS Healthcare Limited and Soleus People, Altrix Group will now supply to a much larger number of trusts across the UK. This scale creates greater efficiencies in our organisation, allowing us to improve the rates of pay that we offer healthcare professionals and reduce charge rates to our clients over time, whilst providing more choice of work for the healthcare professionals across all the Altrix Group brands.
TFS Healthcare has been a trusted framework supplier of healthcare professionals to the NHS and private healthcare providers in the UK since 2010. Initially focused on the supply of mental health professionals TFS has continued to grow and now supports over 90 clients, providing a workforce across various healthcare specialities.
Soleus People founded in 2014 is a reliable framework nurse staffing agency that provides both general and specialist nurses to 50 clients across the UK and private sector.
Benefits to the NHS
The Nursing Agency market has been very fragmented for a long period causing complexity and unhelpful levels of competition, often forcing supply costs up. This acquisition will help consolidate the market, enabling Altrix Group to streamline services provision into the NHS, creating efficiencies in scale that will support cost reductions to our clients and increased investment in the quality and compliance of our clinical workforce.
What will change?
Altrix Group will be bigger, offering considerably more shifts to all our members whilst offering better value to our NHS and private clients.
All our healthcare professionals will have access to our market leading App, with the ability to manage their own work life, and access to our Altrix+ loyalty program.
What won’t change
We will remain a compliant, framework agency, striving to offer our clients and members an excellent service via our industry leading app and our supportive workforce advisors.
At Altrix Group, we want to be sure we keep improving and growing.
We want to improve quality. To reduce costs to our clients. And to empower healthcare professionals to continue to deliver excellent, quality, patient care, as and when it’s most needed.
We will continue to do this by transforming how our clients flexible workforce is supplied.
We care deeply about the relationships we have with others – with our healthcare professionals, our clients, and staff.
And so we will keep working collaboratively to ensure we can make this happen, together.
