“When I first took up the post of Matron, Health Professionals was under contract to my predecessor for the provision of specialist intensive care nurses. Based on the excellent quality of nurses and service they’ve delivered to date – and the healthy, open relationship I’ve now built with them – I envisage Health Professionals to be providing Oxford AICU with specialist intensive care nurses for the when required.

“Their responsiveness to my nursing resource requests is particularly impressive. Apart from ad hoc shift bookings, I particularly advocate long term engagement of nurses, because in our fast-moving and critical environment, continuity, team integration and cohesion are everything. Health Professionals works hard to rapidly provide nurses not only with a high standard of skill and experience, but with the right fit of character. If a nurse didn’t readily fit into our fold, I know that my relationship with them as a specialist nursing supplier is good enough to overcome any issues.

“The standard of nurses they supply and their response to my resourcing needs is excellent. They also have a sound awareness of medical etiquette and legislation. As a nursing agency, they stand far above other agencies I’ve worked with. Overall, it makes my job so much easier having reassurance that they will provide the quality and standard of nursing resource I need, when I want it. For me, such openness and responsiveness is the only way to work, and I really enjoy working with them.”

Matt Holdaway, Matron, Adult Intensive Care & Critical Care Follow Up John Radcliffe, Churchill and Horton Hospitals

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