GP locum rates increased in some parts of the UK over past year, poll suggests
Average rates paid to locum GPs by practices have risen in some parts of the UK, while other areas have seen fees fall, according to analysis by GPonline's sister site GP Business. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - October 25, 2021 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news
GP rescue plan to boost face-to-face consultations
Extra £250m available to pay for locum staff to help practices in England improve access over winter. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - October 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Dallas-based medical staffing company welcomes new leadership, shifts headquarters within North Texas
Curative Talent, a Dallas-based health care staffing company welcomed new leadership to its Clinical Search unit and announced plans to relocate its headquarters. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - October 12, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Plamedie Ifasso Source Type: news
Dallas-based medical staffing company welcomes new leadership, shifts headquarters within North Texas
Curative Talent, a Dallas-based health care staffing company welcomed new leadership to its Clinical Search unit and announced plans to relocate its headquarters. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - October 12, 2021 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Plamedie Ifasso Source Type: news
South Africa: Right to Care Becomes First NGO in SA to Introduce Mandatory Vaccine Policy
[Right to Care] Leading health NGO, Right to Care, which employs some 4,500 at group level, has announced its mandatory vaccine policy. All Right to Care staff, consultants, contractors and locums must receive a Covid-19 vaccine within six months of becoming eligible to receive a vaccine. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 30, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Pandemic helps push traveling nurse firm to faster growth
Ethos Medical Staffing is ready to move into a larger headquarters and grow its staff. Founder and CEO Jeff Stoner talks about navigating growth and the pandemic. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - September 16, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Leslie Collins Source Type: news
RPS calls for free flu jabs for pharmacists
RPS is calling on the NHS to offer free flu jabs for all pharmacists in England and Wales following reports that pharmacy teams across primary care, including locum staff, would not be given access to (Source: Royal Pharmaceutical Society News)
Source: Royal Pharmaceutical Society News - September 16, 2021 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
NHS England draws up first national inventory of medical staffing gaps
NHS England is analysing medical staffing gaps in all acute services across England, in what appears to be the first exercise of its kind, amid concerns staffing is holding back elective services recovery. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - August 18, 2021 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Medical staffing in England: a defining moment for doctors and patients
This report finds that many frontline social care workers are undervalued by as much as 39 per cent – nearly £ 7,000 per year – in comparison with their peers in equivalent positions in other publicly funded sectors. With the social care sector losing more than 34 per cent of its employees every year and having 112,000 vacancies presently, this research brings into stark focus the roots of an unprecedented workforce cris is. The report provides evidence that frontline carers receive an unjust deal in comparison with other publicly funded industries and breaks the stereotype that social care is a ' low-skilled ' sector...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - July 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Medical staffing in England
This report shows current workforce data trends analysis, and how the government can combat the widening gap between medical staff supply and increasing patient need. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - July 14, 2021 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Most practices have increased use of locum GPs to tackle workload pressures
More than half of GP practices have been forced to increase their use of locums in the past six months to deal with growing workload pressures, a GPonline poll reveals. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - June 30, 2021 Category: Primary Care Tags: News Source Type: news
Funding boost for NHS bid to establish local banks of GPs working flexibly
NHS leaders are aiming to complete the rollout of 'flexible pools' of locum and salaried GPs across England, offering £120,000 per health system in 2021/22 to support the programme. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - May 25, 2021 Category: Primary Care Tags: Contracts & funding Source Type: news
Travel nurses, medical staffing industry pushed to the limits by Covid-19
On one of her first days working in an Arizona hospital, Kelsi Shawd placed the bodies of Covid-19 patients into cadaver bags.
For months, Katherine Hall watched her patients suffer, not sure whether they would die or recover enough to go home.
Some nights, Johnathan Hopper drank 12 beers just to get to sleep after his shift ended at a New York hospital when the city was the epicenter of the pandemic in 2020.
“I’ve seen hundreds of people die,” Hopper said. “You can’t sleep, but you… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - May 3, 2021 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Mollie Jamison, Rylee Kirk, Izzy Koyama, Maya Leachman and Isaac Stone Simonelli Source Type: news
