At Locum’s Nest, we understand that healthcare processes can be rather time-consuming and stressful to complete. That’s why we’ve partnered with Doctors Appraisal Consultancy (DAC) to bring our users peace of mind and prepare you as you get ready to progress your medical career. DAC are our doctors’ appraisal provider of choice, with a friendly team of experts on hand to help you through the appraisal and revalidation process.

We are delighted to share that the North Central London Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (NCL STP) has appointed Locum’s Nest to create London’s largest collaborative staff bank for their 10 NHS Trusts.

By introducing our cloud-based solution, it will enable each hospital to access a larger pool of doctors and tackle the building pressure on our NHS healthcare professionals.

Since Locum’s Nest was launched, our team has been working hard to bridge the communication gap within the NHS. We have created collaborative staff banks, generated dramatic cost savings and heavily reduced manual administration within people management. Here, we share how, by advancing the synergy between hospital managers and frontline workers, the NHS can bring a sense of unity and enhance overall employee wellbeing.

As ambassadors for digital healthcare innovation, we’re proud to sponsor this year’s HR Analytics Award, a category that recognises the value of workforce data to deliver insights, better decision-making and, ultimately, safer wards and improved patient care. Many submissions were received, each demonstrating the creativity and commitment of HR & OD teams across the country.

Over the years we’ve become experts in applying and evaluating best practices when it comes to managing staff banks. In this article, we explore specific techniques to allow rapid bank growth and engagement over the August Changeover period.

In the second episode of our new video series, ‘Designing for HealthTech’, our Co-Founder, Dr Nicholas Andreou, and Head of Design, Jason Peart, discuss how, through thoughtful design, Locum’s Nest has created a truly empathetic user experience, contributing to our users’ peace of mind as well as building the ultimate destination for flexible, empowered shift work.

Not afraid to challenge the status quo, ASPH teamed up with Locum’s Nest and Rotageek to pioneer a new way to roster their staff. We invited Debbie Beck, Workforce Deployment Systems Project Manager, and Coleen Sherlock, Assistant HR Director, to discuss how they championed rostering innovation in an online workshop on how the NHS must build a flexible workforce. Here, we share their journey so far.

At Locum’s Nest, we strongly believe in the power of a collaborative workforce, having enabled NHS Trusts across the country to consistently achieve shift fill rates of over 90%, generating dramatic cost savings and empowering their employees through our suite of products.

Here we share more about this important shift and how, by embracing this change, NHS providers can become leaders in the continuously evolving healthcare landscape.

We are over the moon to announce that Locum’s Nest has been shortlisted for the renowned Design Week Awards 2021. Following the rapid deployment of three Locum’s Nest products during the pandemic, our mobile app for NHS workers is in the running for a brand new category, ‘Designing out Covid-19’.

Our aim has always been to better the lives of NHS workers; a user-centric philosophy which continues to remain front of mind whilst designing our platform of workforce solutions. We are therefore delighted to announce the launch of our brand new video series, ‘Designing for HealthTech’, which shares how Locum’s Nest is revolutionising design in healthcare technology today.

Our goal remains to increase flexible working within the NHS, improving staff retention, engagement, patient care and ultimately saving our healthcare service £1.5 billion over the next five years. By developing a suite of unique products, each individually catered to our customers specific needs, we are now able to radically transform the NHS staffing crisis.

The NHS backlog is still out of proportion, at Locum's Nest we believe more must be done to tackle this pressing issue and gain back control of the NHS waiting list. Here, we share how a multifactorial solution must involve a better allocation of existing resources.

Our solutions are leading the way in interoperability, rostering and flexible working. But perhaps most importantly, they are supporting the wellbeing of our users.

Here we share how Locum’s Nest is future-proofing workforce software and the elements that bind our forward-thinking approach.

We are delighted to share that Locum’s Nest is the official sponsor of the 2021 HPMA HR Analytics Excellence in People Awards; a chance to celebrate the work of HR, OD and NHS workforce professionals in the UK. Such individuals have continued to support and empower an inclusive, people-first culture at a time where healthcare workers have been under immense pressure. For that reason, it’s even more important we recognise these teams’ enormous contribution.

Our recent Flexa accreditation not only demonstrates our commitment to flexibility for our employees but for our NHS workers too. NHS workforce solutions must avoid treating workers as a series of spreadsheet outcomes and outputs, and should, instead, embed flexibility within their technology as a priority to build a happier, healthier and more engaged workforce.

Here we share why flexibility is so crucial within our healthcare service and how it must be embedded within workforce technology to be successful.

“As a first-time mum to a 6-month-old baby, I came to the realisation that I needed to prioritise myself and my mental health and wellbeing in order to be present for my baby and for my life as it was evolving under the shadow of a pandemic. It was this necessity for short, effective and bite-sized moments of calm that attracted me to The Nourish App.”

The team at Locum’s Nest have been revolutionising the way healthcare workers are supported with technology in the NHS. We’d like to think we played a large role in this movement and it’s wonderful that the Financial Times have picked us as the only NHS workforce platform to feature in their renowned list of Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies.

From the very beginning, we designed our technology to help healthcare organisations manage both their contingent and temporary clinicians as one workforce unit. Now, we’ve made it possible to do the same across all NHS staff groups from doctors, to pharmacists, dentists, AHPs and nurses and, more importantly, it’s already delivering great results.

It is only naturally that we at Locum’s Nest decided to partner with the inspiring TEDxNHS team this year and support this genuine grassroots movement aiming to spread inspirational stories and aspirational ideas within our NHS. Today more than ever our NHS community needs a chance to breathe and hear stories from its people that inspire hope and propel positive change.

At Locum’s Nest, we design our apps with a user-centric philosophy. Much like consumer applications, our technology uses techniques that go beyond functionality to uphold an engaging user experience. After all, our doctors and nurses are tech-savvy and deserve more than basic design - the process of booking shifts should not be boring.

In this blog, we share our favourite consumer apps and the features that inspire our leading Collaborative Bank app design.