title: Recruitment partnership.
abstract: The Raine Partnership is a health care consultancy which provides imaginative and practical solutions to personnel and managerial recruitment problems in the NHS and independent health sectors. Founded eight years ago, Hilary Shenton stresses that it is not an agency. The company works very closely with health authorities on both direct management recruitment and in helping managers with their own recruitment. All those staff within the Partnership who have direct involvement with nursing recruitment (a total of nine) are experienced qualified nurses and when advising clients, the emphasis is very much on a joint approach. For example, if a particular hospital has a history of recruitment difficulties then a good deal of time will be invested by the Raine team in helping to plan a strategy to solve the problems.