Teaching trust finds hundreds of hidden waiters
A teaching hospital has discovered more than 630 patients who it failed to follow up “as a result of a high turnover of locums and failure of a trust process”. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - October 18, 2019 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Trust and agency investigating ‘false claims’ over patient death
A trust and the NHS’ staffing agency have launched an investigation after a coroner found two nurses and a healthcare assistant may have lied about carrying out patient observations. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - October 4, 2019 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Pinellas County medical staffing agency acquired
A Pinellas County medical staffing agency has been acquired by an Orlando-based workforce solutions company.
Loyal Source, which provides contracting services worldwide, acquired SonoTemps of Tarpon Springs. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
SonoTemps, founded in 1995, specializes in medical imaging services, which will allow Loyal Source to offer more medical service lines for its clients, including travel nurses, physicians, advanced practice and allied and clinical specialty roles,… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 25, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Crystal Owens Source Type: news
Cancer sufferer, 29, reveals she was made to feel like a 'hypochondriac' for three years by a GP
Rebecca Hetherington, now 29, from Newcastle, started to feel unwell in 2013. She was diagnosed with stage two metastatic papillary thyroid cancer on May 17 2016 after a locum GP referred her for a scan. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 20, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Rediscovering the Joy of Practice via a Rocky Mountain Reboot Rediscovering the Joy of Practice via a Rocky Mountain Reboot
A burned-out physician who quit fulltime practice because of family responsibilities finds that locum tenens work in the Northwest was just the medicine she needed.theheart.org on Medscape (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - August 14, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiology Expert Column Source Type: news
Letter Urges Protection of Access to Military Health Care
The AAFP and other medical groups recently called on House and Senate leaders to protect military medical staffing levels from a harmful proposed budget cut. (Source: AAFP News)
Source: AAFP News - August 7, 2019 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Pensions crisis leading to outsourcing to Australia, warns union
The NHS pensions crisis is forcing trusts to outsource elective work at a “significantly higher cost” and rely on expensive locums to cover vacancies, a doctors’ union has warned. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - July 29, 2019 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
NHS-owned staffing agency appoints new chief exec
NHS Professionals has appointed a new chief executive. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - July 23, 2019 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Why blinkered doctors mean millions of women could be living with undiagnosed heartfailure
Fran Halcrow, from Penicuik, Scotland, suffered from all the tell-tale symptoms of heart failure - her locum GP failed to identify the cause. Here, she tells her story. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Health Carousel hires executive to help lead digital transformation
Health Carousel has hired Tracy Hankin as vice president of innovation at the Norwood, Ohio-based firm, which staffs medical centers nationwide with registered nurses, doctors and other health care professionals.
She will lead innovation strategy in the Locum Tenens division – focused on the Health Carousel acquisition in May of North Carolina-based Lucidity – as part of the company’s commitment to digital transformation.
Lucidity is a technology platform that connects physicians seeking… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - July 17, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Barrett J. Brunsman Source Type: news
Health Carousel hires former Atlanta executive to help lead digital transformation
Health Carousel has hired Tracy Hankin as vice president of innovation at the Norwood, Ohio-based firm, which staffs medical centers nationwide with registered nurses, doctors and other health care professionals.
She will lead innovation strategy in the Locum Tenens division – focused on the Health Carousel acquisition in May of North Carolina-based Lucidity – as part of the company’s commitment to digital transformation.
Lucidity is a technology platform that connects physicians seeking… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - July 17, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Barrett J. Brunsman Source Type: news
Locum Consultant in Diabetes & Endocrinology (Thyroid and General)
Applications are sought for a full time Locum Consultant post in Endocrinology (Thyroid& General) and Diabetic Medicine at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Addenbrooke’s Hospital).Endocrinology and Diabetes services at CUHFT are based in the Wolfson Diabetes and Endocrine Centre (WDEC). The WDEC is a dedicated ambulatory centre within the Wellcome Trust -MRC Institute of Metabolic Science (IMS), a purpose-built centre dedicated to research, education and clinical care in the area of metabolic disease.The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to Thyroid and General Endocri...
Source: Society for Endocrinology - July 11, 2019 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
Community pharmacy sector concerned about new tax proposals
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society, the Company Chemists’ Association (CCA), the National Pharmacy Association (NPA), the Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies (AIM),Team Locum and Locate (Source: Royal Pharmaceutical Society News)
Source: Royal Pharmaceutical Society News - June 11, 2019 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
