NMC-Registered Nurses & Midwives You Can Rely On
We supply NMC-registered nurses and midwives to healthcare facilities across the UK. From temporary cover to permanent placements, every professional is fully vetted, compliant and ready to deliver safe, high-quality clinical care.
What We Provide
- ✓NMC-Registered Nurses
- ✓Registered Midwives
- ✓Temporary & Permanent Cover
- ✓Full Compliance Checks
Our nursing professionals cover general nursing, elderly care, palliative care and more, for NHS trusts, private hospitals, nursing homes and community services. We match the right skills to your setting, fast.
Roles and Settings We Cover
We supply registered general nurses, registered mental health nurses, registered nurses for learning disabilities and registered midwives, along with senior and deputy nursing roles where a service needs experience rather than just a body on the floor. Those nurses work across nursing and residential homes, hospices, NHS trusts, private hospitals, clinics and community services. Where a shift needs a nurse alongside carers, we can supply both from the same booking, drawing on our support staff, mental health and learning disability teams.
Registration and Clinical Compliance
Every nurse we place holds a live registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, checked against the NMC register before placement; registered nurses must revalidate every three years to stay on it. Alongside that we complete and evidence an enhanced DBS check, right-to-work verification in line with Home Office guidance including sponsorship status where relevant, mandatory training mapped to the Care Certificate and the relevant clinical frameworks, occupational health clearance with an up-to-date immunisation record, and references covering recent employment with any gaps explained. Ask for a full compliance file for any nurse and we will produce the evidence itself rather than an assurance that it exists.
This matters because every nurse we send becomes part of your regulated service. In England the Care Quality Commission inspects against the fundamental standards in the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014, and safe recruitment sits squarely within them. Employment agencies and employment businesses are separately governed by the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003. Protocol Healthcare Services Ltd is REC affiliated and an FSB member.
How a Booking Works
Send us the brief: setting, dates and shift times, dependency and acuity, the specific clinical competencies required, any equipment or systems the nurse must be familiar with, and your induction arrangements. We match against those competencies rather than availability alone, confirm the named nurse to you in advance, and brief them before they arrive. Our consultants are contactable seven days a week, Monday to Friday from 8am to 8pm and weekends from 10am to 9pm, for urgent and short-notice bookings, including cover for evening, night, weekend and bank holiday shifts, and if a worker cannot attend we tell you immediately and work on a replacement rather than leaving you to discover it at handover.
Skill Mix and Continuity
A shift covered by the right number of people but the wrong blend of skills is not safely staffed. We book against what the shift actually requires, and we build a small pool of nurses who know your service, your residents and your systems, because continuity is what turns agency cover into something closer to an extension of your own team. It also reduces induction time and the clinical risk that comes with an unfamiliar face on a complex floor.
Temporary, Block Booking or Permanent
Temporary cover suits sickness, annual leave, vacancies awaiting recruitment and sudden rises in acuity, and can often be filled at short notice. Block and fixed-term bookings suit a known period of extra need, such as an outbreak or a temporary uplift in dependency, and give continuity without a permanent commitment. Permanent placement is a one-off recruitment service: we source, screen and present candidates, and you employ the successful one directly on your own terms.
What We Charge For, and What We Will Not Do
We quote per assignment rather than publishing a rate card, because rates depend on the role, setting, shift time and notice given. Every quote is itemised. A charge rate covers the nurse's wage, employer National Insurance, holiday pay and pension, the cost of vetting, mandatory training and revalidation support, and our operating margin, with uplifts for nights, weekends, bank holidays and short-notice bookings. Compare it against the fill rate, because an unfilled shift is a cost too.
We will not send a nurse whose competencies do not match the brief simply to fill a gap, and we will tell you when we cannot cover a shift rather than leaving it open. Clinical accountability for the service stays with you: our nurses work under your policies, your care plans and your registered manager's oversight, and we support that rather than replace it.
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Need nursing cover for a specific rota? Talk to our consultants and we will come back with named, evidenced availability.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about working with Protocol Healthcare Services. Can't find your answer? Our team is always happy to help.
Contact UsYes. Every nurse and midwife we place holds a live registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, checked against the NMC register before the placement starts rather than taken on trust from a CV. Registrants must revalidate every three years to stay on the register, so we track renewal alongside enhanced DBS, right to work, mandatory training and occupational health clearance, and we will not place anyone whose registration we cannot verify.
Yes. We supply registered general nurses, registered mental health nurses and registered nurses for learning disabilities, and we match to the registration and field of practice the shift actually requires rather than sending whoever is available. Where a shift needs a nurse working alongside carers, we can supply both from the same booking through our support staff, mental health and learning disability teams.
Yes. Alongside floor nurses we supply senior, deputy and nurse-in-charge cover for services that need someone able to hold clinical responsibility for a shift, lead a handover and manage escalation. Tell us at the point of booking that the shift carries charge responsibility, because it changes who we can safely put forward. Our consultants take short-notice requests seven days a week and can arrange cover for evening, night, weekend and bank holiday shifts, though a charge shift is the one we are least willing to fill with whoever is free.
Yes. We supply registered midwives whose NMC registration is checked against the register in the same way as for nurses, working across NHS trusts, private hospitals, clinics and community services. Midwifery briefs are matched on the competencies you describe, so tell us the area of practice, the shift pattern and the systems the midwife will be working with rather than asking simply for a midwife.
We book against the competencies the shift requires, not availability alone. Send the brief with dependency and acuity, the specific clinical competencies needed including medication administration where the shift involves it, and any equipment or electronic records systems the nurse must be familiar with. We match against that, confirm the named nurse to you in advance and brief them before they arrive, and we will not send a nurse whose competencies do not match the brief simply to fill a gap.
Clinical accountability for the service stays with you. Our nurses work under your policies, your care plans and your registered manager's oversight, and we support that rather than replace it. Each registered nurse also remains professionally accountable for their own practice as a condition of NMC registration. As an employment business we remain responsible for their vetting, training records and the terms on which they are supplied, which are governed by the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003.
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