In this article, we highlight how NHS Trusts have increased flexibility, agility and transparency with their workforce through a committed bank-first approach, benefiting the Trust and healthcare professionals. Through every step of the funnel, we show how NHS Trusts have the best possible chance of filling shifts with their staff bank in a user-friendly, efficient and straightforward way.

The Co-Founder of Scrubbed In and Peerr shares his story from growing up to studying medicine and becoming an entrepreneur in the field of socialising education. “Fresh faced and straight out of college, I entered King’s College London for the first time to study Medicine. It just happened that the first guy I sat down next to was Amz, little did I know it would be the start of so many amazing things to come.”

The Kent and Medway ICS is forming its cloud-based medics collaborative bank, enabled by Locum’s Next, to allow clinicians to cross-cover shifts across 6 NHS Trusts - exponentially expanding the size of individual Trusts’ staff pool, and ultimately deliver more patient care hours.

Identified by the Financial Times as one of the fastest-growing companies in Europe in 2021, Locum’s Nest has already saved the NHS over £750m in the last 5 years. On top of that, our data shows we will save in excess of the 10% required by NHSE, so why stop at 10%?

The transition from medical student to doctor is often a turbulent time. In this article, Locum Paediatric Doctor and You Okay, Doc? Ambassador, Dr Natasha Holmes, shares some advice and resources on how to get through this challenging time.

In this article, we share why flexibility is of paramount importance to the immediate future of the NHS and look at key data metrics coming from the recent NHS Staff Survey, signifying an undoubtedly higher demand for more flexible working across the NHS.

Ross Elledge, Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon & ‘You Okay, Doc?’ Ambassador, writes about his experience with stress as a healthcare professional, and shares his tools for managing stress including mindfulness and tips about meditation.

This Mental Health Awareness Week, You Okay, Doc? Ambassador Dr Emily Palmer writes about why medicine is a lonely profession and gives her top tips on how to best manage loneliness.

Read how The Digital Collaborative Bank, powered by Locum’s Nest, enabled 10 NHS Trusts to fill more vacant shifts, which contributed to positive outcomes in a challenging year. This highlights how the use of workforce technology with collaboration allows Trusts to share a more expansive and forever growing pool of workers.

Locum’s Nest Co-Founder and NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellow, Dr Ahmed Shahrabani, discusses his organisation’s bespoke response to help tackle the care backlog at North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust.

Switching off from work can, paradoxically, be incredibly stressful. This is especially true for those working high-demand jobs in fast-paced environments where work never sleeps. It’s often difficult to turn off our work brain, making it easy for those pesky, intrusive thoughts to sneak home with us and form a chorus inside our heads.

Mental health organisations are facing a unique combination of concerns which have only been worsened by the pandemic. In this article, we share the challenges facing the NHS mental health workforce - and how innovative workforce management technologies such as Locum’s Nest, can help to overcome them.

Burnout levels are higher than ever and yet the pressures of the winter months and the new COVID-19 wave continue. Sara Campin, Founder & CEO of The Nourish App, shares 9 simple mindset tips and practical strategies to help you safeguard your sanity and find more work-life balance, even in the midst of the current pressures.

We know that technology does not work without the people to back it up and engage with it. So how can we ensure these time-saving and potentially life-saving solutions are successfully adopted? In this article we explore the importance of change management within the NHS, and how we, as a leading healthcare tech provider, support organisations through this challenging process.

The winter pressure on the NHS is felt by all, in whatever field you work in. For Dr Claire Agathou, Ambassador for mental health charity You Okay, Doc?, going to work and leaving when it is cold and dark means taking some extra measures to ensure her own health doesn’t suffer as a result. Read her top tips for surviving the winter pressures.

In this article we share a snapshot of actions NHS HR & OD teams can start to implement to future-proof workforce planning and create long lasting cultural change in their organisations. These 6 key actions have been directly extracted from 3 out of the 8 main themes laid out in ‘The Future of NHS HR & OD 2030 vision’.

I have to admit that it hasn’t been easy compiling the ‘killer’ list precisely because there isn’t one. Some of these tips will work for some, and for some others they will be completely useless... but here we go, I hope some will prove useful to you or your loved ones.

London’s largest mental health Trust, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, will be enabling flexibility for both medics and Allied Health Professionals with the adoption of our leading shift matching and rostering technology.

Protecting healthcare professionals’ mental health has always been our top priority. Long before Covid-19, we outlined our mission to enable better flexibility, staffing and collaboration within the NHS.

We are therefore delighted to announce we have recently joined forces with ‘You Okay, Doc?’, a mental health charity that seeks to improve and support doctors’ wellbeing worldwide.

In the third episode of our video series ‘Designing for HealthTech’. Our Co-Founder, Dr Nicholas Andreou, and Head of Design, Jason Peart, met to share how, through a series of microinteractions, the Locum’s Nest app has not only heightened engagement between frontline users and management, but has improved the overall wellbeing of our NHS people.