NRP featured in Care Agenda: taking payroll pressure off care providers
New Red Planet’s Chief Commercial Officer, Damian Wasey, explores how payroll affects staff confidence, management time and workforce stability in the September 2026 edition of Care Agenda.
Care providers have enough to manage. Keeping services safely staffed, supporting employees and delivering quality care all demand time and attention. Behind those priorities sits another essential responsibility: making sure people are paid correctly and on time.
When payroll creates repeated queries, corrections or last-minute pressure, the impact reaches beyond the finance team. It takes managers away from their responsibilities and can undermine employees’ confidence in their employer.
That is the subject of Damian’s article, “Payroll: The Hidden Pressure Point in Social Care Staffing”, published in Care Agenda, Care England’s sector magazine.
More time for your people. More focus on care.
At NRP, we believe payroll should support your organisation and its people, without becoming a recurring burden on those responsible for delivering care.
Care payroll brings particular challenges. Different shift patterns, waking nights, enhancements, variable hours and travel payments can sit alongside frequent starters and leavers, pension duties and statutory payments.
For an owner, manager or finance team already balancing multiple responsibilities, keeping all of this running smoothly can consume valuable time.
Our role is to take that processing burden off your team and provide dependable support when you need it.
Payroll support built around your organisation
NRP provides a fully managed payroll bureau service for care homes, nursing homes and domiciliary care providers.
We work with you to understand your workforce, pay arrangements and existing processes, then build the service around your organisation. Support includes payroll processing, statutory payments, pension auto-enrolment administration, HMRC RTI submissions and clear payslips.
With named account support and a dedicated Bureau Portal, your team has a clear route for information and payroll queries.
For directly employed staff, you remain the employer while NRP manages the agreed payroll processing responsibilities.
Support across permanent and temporary workforces
Alongside our bureau service, NRP supports recruitment agencies through our umbrella and PEO PAYE services.
This gives care providers and their agency partners access to a payroll specialist who understands both directly employed workforces and temporary staffing arrangements, with the appropriate service for each.
Read the Care Agenda feature
View the article below to learn more about the payroll pressures facing care providers and how NRP can help.
Could payroll be taking more of your team’s time than it should?
Whether you process payroll internally or already outsource it, a conversation can help identify where your current arrangements could work better.
Book a 15-minute payroll review with Steve McDermott to discuss your workforce, your current process and the support your team needs.