A winning summer! More Trusts trust Locum’s Nest - the “company that has delivered the greatest benefit to the NHS”
It’s been a triumphant summer for us here at Locum’s Nest HQ. In this short period of time, we’ve been quite busy – to say the very least. The reason? We’ve been working day in and day out to launch our clever, award-winning tech solution in four new NHS Trusts, including a mental health Trust, as well as in the largest private medical slimming group in the country, providing locums with increased flexibility of work scope and workload.
These new partnerships take the total number of organisations working with Locum’s Nest to 180, covering a patient population of at least 10 million. Already, the combined estimated savings from these newly added NHS Trusts working with the platform could be in excess of £20 million in the first year alone.
Nicholas Andreou, Co-Founder of Locum’s Nest says, “We are going through a period of rapid expansion as word spreads of our partners’ successes, we have secured seven NHS Trusts already in 2019 alone.
“The digitisation of recruiting and managing temporary staff is no longer a distant techno-dream, it’s here, it’s happening, and Trusts are seeing huge benefits, financial and otherwise.
“Our technology ensures more shifts are filled, more often and more efficiently – it’s that simple. This leads to time saved, money saved, and most importantly, outcomes improved for patients.
“These Trusts will, like all our existing partners, save millions of pounds each year, all of which can be put to better use hiring more nurses and doctors, updating equipment or offering new services – saving our NHS!”
Here’s a little bit about our new partners…
Mid Essex Hospital NHS Trust
Offers a wide range of services including A&E, emergency medicine and surgery, elective surgery, maternity and paediatrics to 380,000 people, now with thousands of shifts available on the app each week across all departments.
Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
One of the most progressive mental health Trusts is now live on the app. They provide a wide range of mental health services in order to help patients achieve recovery. The 1,000-strong staff deliver care for more than 20,000 people each year, across 23 community sites and 3 hospitals.
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
One of the biggest and busiest acute NHS Trusts in the North West, they are the largest employer in the Wirral. Hundreds of shifts are available every week in ED, with more specialities coming up really soon.
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
A Trust with 3 sites, Gloucester, Cheltenham and Stroud, providing high-quality care for the population of Gloucester and beyond. With a dozen departments up and running already, there are hundreds of shifts available each week. All remaining departments will be live in the coming weeks.
The Slimming Clinic
The market leaders in providing clinician-led slimming treatments with 22 clinics all over England, Scotland and Wales. With 21 clinics* live on the app, locums can now book Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm shifts and all grades are accepted.
And last but not least, we’ve also taken home the amazing “Company that has Delivered the Greatest Benefit to the NHS” Award by DigitalHealth.London Accelerator for the outstanding impact our partners have made to the NHS through our Collaborative Staff Bank. We are extremely honoured to be recognised for our work with our partners as well as being an enabler of choice for innovation in healthcare organisations.
Rest assured, our mission to solve the UK’s healthcare workforce challenge doesn’t stop here! We’re fully loaded to tackle the healthcare staffing crisis through total workforce mobility via more innovations, more partnerships with NHS Trusts, GP practices and federations and more specialist healthcare organisations coming up soon.
Keep your eyes peeled, we can’t wait to reveal more soon!
*Slimming Clinics live on the app: Bournemouth, Basildon, Brighton, Bristol, Crawley, Hounslow, Ilford, Portsmouth, Southampton, Staines, Bradford, Middlesborough, Newcastle, Northampton, Sunderland, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Gillingham, Glasgow, Plymouth and Swansea.