Permanently reduce your costs with proven Care Sector Procurement Experts to improve your financial stability

Social care providers are facing critical operational and financial challenges, including staffing shortages, compliance risks, increasing demand for services and increasing resourcing costs. The recent Autumn Budget has left the social care sector abandoned and left care providers to fend for themselves.

In these continued challenging conditions, many care organisations have struggled to balance their staffing requirements and users’ needs with their tightening finances. Some providers have had to reduce service offerings or sites, understaff services or even hand back untenable contracts.

So what immediate actions can social care organisations take to increase their profitability in order to remain supporting their users?

One realistic and effective solution is to examine your costings to make savings.  One particular high spend area for care organisations is commonly their staffing overheads.   The nature of the care sector particularly, relies heavily on agency staff which can create mounting costs.

We at Marr Procurement have helped our care clients reduce their agency consumption by up to 95%, but most crucially without sacrificing the level of care for their users.   This is done through a bespoke analysis of your current staffing composition, choosing the ideal agency sourcing model, ensuring best value for money from agencies and periodic reporting on costs.

Additionally. as a whole spend base consulting service, we are able to make savings across all spend categories, resulting in significant savings to an organisation’s total overheads. By taking an holistic approach to cost savings, we are able to make not only significant savings across the board, but to also determine which savings are worthwhile and how best to ensure continuity and quality of care in the delivery.

With conditions expected to persist or increasingly worsen, can your care organisation afford not to address your costs?