Locum’s Nest in the press
Forbes 30 Under 30 - Dr Ahmed Shahrabani
Ahmed Shahrabani is the Co-Founder of Locum’s Nest, a mobile app that helps staff healthcare workers across the NHS. Over the past 5 years 40,000 workers have used the app, filling over half a million shifts.
One NHS: The Case for Open Collaborative Staff Banks
Locum’s Nest Co-Founder, Dr Ahmed Shahrabani, focuses on the newly emerging collaborative staff banks across the country, created in order to mitigate workforce challenges.
Locum’s Nest raises strategic funding round to support 100 trust deployment and £1bn NHS savings target
Healthtech company Locum’s Nest has received a multimillion strategic funding that it will use to hit £1bn in financial savings for the NHS
Healthcare technology is ushering the NHS towards a more compassionate, inclusive culture
As our health professionals are still on the frontline fighting to protect us from the COVID-19 pandemic, we must look at how healthcare technology can support the NHS and its workforce.
Why pioneering interoperability partnerships should be embedded into the NHS cultural change
The past year has seen numerous NHS regulating bodies considerably ramp up their attempts in moving the health and care technology market towards becoming a more connected and compatible environment for a modern national healthcare system.
Effective sustainable answers to retention and recruitment challenges – The case for Open Collaborative Staff Bank
The HIN works with a number of innovators which could potentially support the health and social care sector. Here we hear from one of the companies we have worked closely with.
Connecting Doctors To Locum Work in Hospitals
Interview with Dr Ahmed Shahrabani, Co-Founder at Locum’s Nest.
How cleverly structured staff banks can improve staff morale and strengthen the psychological contract between the employee and the employer
Dr Nicholas Andreou, doctor and co-founder of Locum's Nest, explains how important the psychological contract between NHS employers and employees is in the NHS and explores how to best nurture and cherish it.
We need a patient-need led approach to doctor deployment
Suzanne Rankin, CEO at Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS FT, explores how to best deploy our front-line workforce and puts a compelling argument in favour of transparency, collaboration and flexibility.
We must continue to drive innovation in our health service
Dr Ahmed Shahrabani, Co-Founder of Locum’s Nest, draws from his own experience to examine the adoption of technology during the Covid-19 era and how this can be maintained following the pandemic
Locum’s Nest launches world-beating new product range
Locum’s Nest has announced the NHS’s first total workforce solution for temporary staffing within hospital Trusts and General Practice.
The company believes this move will radically transform temporary staffing management and help ensure it reaches its new target of saving the NHS £1.5 billion during the next five years.
Locum’s Nest announce new partnership with Rotageek
Accelerator alumnus, Locum’s Nest announce a new partnership designed to improve staffing across the whole of the NHS with Rotageek (which provides advanced rostering solutions).
Locum’s Nest launches WIN to help workforce planning
Locum’s Nest is the UK’s leading app that 30,000 clinicians use to offer their additional services to the NHS during Covid-19.
We, alongside Microsoft, were among the first to completely unlock our platform, giving the NHS free access to our tools.
University College London Hospital, Moorfields and Great Ormond Street, to form the capital’s largest medical collaborative staff bank
North Central London STP is implementing a cloud-based collaborative bank solution to share individual medical bank pools across 10 NHS Trusts which will allow hospitals to access a larger bank.
The most flexible companies by industry 2022
Locum’s Nest ranks first in the Healthtech & Healthcare category of the Flexa Industry Awards 2022 - where Flexa rank the most flexible companies across a variety of industries.
Medical e-rostering: shifting towards a more inclusive, compassionate and flexible rota for the NHS
In mid-February Locum’s Nest launched Locum’s Nest Rota, the e-rostering service creating inclusive, compassionate and flexible rotas with a focus on staff wellbeing.
3 techniques to improve fairness in the way you deploy your contingent workforce
Locum’s Nest Co-Founder, Dr Nicholas Andreou, explores ways to enhance the role of technology in supporting inclusive and modern workforce deployment.
HealthTech Hour: Dr Ahmed Shahrabani & Dr Sarah Jarvis MBE
HealthTech Hour host Steve Roest speaks to Dr Ahmed Shahrabani and Dr Sarah Jarvis MBE about HealthTech and how it can help improve the standard of care across the entire NHS system when used correctly
The Founding Story of Locum’s Nest
Tune in to the latest Scrubbed In podcast to hear the story behind Locum’s Nest from Co-Founder Dr Nicholas Andreou and his pursuit to have superior UX/UI in a medical app in a time when design was last on the list
Digital Boards: Lessons from technology suppliers
Locum's Nest Co-Founder, Dr Nicholas Andreou, joins this episode of the NHS Providers podcast to discuss the relationship between digital teams in the NHS and technology, and how to journey along that collaborative relationship.
N in NHS stands for National - we need to collaborate more!
My guest this week is one of driving forces behind efficiency, collaboration and staff satisfaction within the NHS; Ahmed Shahrabani, the founder of the collaborative staffing platform Locum’s Nest.
Three ways to solve the logistical challenges of giving COVID vaccines
An anonymous Doctor explains how the NHS could tackle the significant logistical challenges of giving COVID vaccines
COVID-19 Lessons: Locum’s Nest
Dr Ahmed Shahrabani is an NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) Fellow and the co-founder of Locum’s Nest, a total workforce management system, which he worked closely with Kent Surrey Sussex AHSN to grow. Here he writes about his experience during the COVID-19 pandemic as both an innovator and a doctor who returned to frontline work in.
Company of the Month – Locum’s Nest
Locum’s Nest is a digital health solution that connects clinicians to temporary work in healthcare organisations. Founded by two doctors in 2016, the company has already saved the NHS £50 m by placing doctors directly into vacant shifts and avoiding agency fees.
DigitalHealth.London Accelerator Awards recognise business growth, NHS impact, and contribution to the programme
Locum’s Nest – winner of the ‘Company that generated the greatest benefit to the NHS award’.
Interview Series: Ahmed Shahrabani, Co-founder, Locum’s Nest
Last month we spoke with Ahmed Shahrabani from Locum’s Nest to hear more about the company and its plans for the next 12 months.
Central and North West London NHS FT adopts Locum’s Nest total workforce solution to revolutionise flexible working & collaborative rostering across medics and AHPs
London’s largest mental health Trust will be enabling flexibility for both medics and Allied Health Professionals with the adoption of the Locum’s Nest leading shift matching and rostering technology.
FT 1000: the fifth annual list of Europe’s fastest-growing companies
Locum’s Nest is identified as one of Europe’s fastest growing companies and the only NHS workforce platform on this year’s FT1000 list
An Ode To NHS Heroes On National Heroes Day
With today, December 29, marking National Heroes Day, we at UNILAD want to give people the chance to applaud those in the NHS who have helped keep the UK afloat during the ongoing health crisis.
NHS-backed online 'doctor bank' could save hospitals millions by linking medics to shifts without pricey recruitment agencies
An online 'doctor bank' could save the NHS millions of pounds by plugging hospital staff shortages at the last minute.
Locum’s Nest confirmed to provide 72% saving on agency worker spend for NHS Trusts
An independent study released by official NHS body, The Kent Surrey and Sussex Academic Health Science Network, reveals Locum’s Nest would provide a 72% saving on agency spend for NHS Trusts.
BAME staff, Covid-19 and the NHS
Dr Ahmed Shahrabani recently returned to the NHS frontline to fight Covid-19, here he reflects on racial inequalities that the virus has highlighted for BAME healthcare staff.
Building a sustainable NHS workforce, trust by trust
The Locum’s Nest team is buzzing. The reason? The multi award-winning digital staff solutions brand, founded by two doctors, has just won the contract to create one unified staff bank for three currently merging NHS trusts in Essex.
Four of the 11 Innovators on the NIA are Accelerator SMEs
The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) has announced today the 11 high impact innovations joining the national accelerator in 2020. Four of the 11 innovators are DigitalHealth.London Accelerator companies; Health Navigator, Locum’s Nest, MyPreOp (Ultramed) and Safe Steps.
The First Digital Collaborative Staff Bank For Medics
NHS Providers' CEO, Chris Hopson, introduces the first digital collaborative bank for medics, founded in 2017, which pioneered the model now followed by collaborative banks throughout the country.
Caring for doctors. Caring for patients.
How to transform UK healthcare environments to support doctors and medical students to care for patients.
Digital Health Unplugged: Digitally managing NHS pressure
The latest Digital Health Unplugged is now live, looking at how digital tools can be used to manage pressure on the NHS, the importance of electronic patient records and upskilling the workforce.
Doctor-staffing startups boom in usage as healthcare systems scramble to respond to the pandemic
Locum's Nest, which connects clinicians who fill in for absent staff to available shifts, has launched a dashboard to help NHS trusts allocate staff to where they are needed most. The company said it saw a 38% month-to-month spike from February to March.
The Story of Locum’s Nest – The Birth
The digitisation of staff banks, now commonplace in the NHS, can be attributed to two regular front-line doctors who saw the need and put together the blueprints for a digital revolution.