The Financial Times identifies Locum’s Nest as one of Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies
Dr Ahmed Shahrabani,
Co-Founder
Three weeks ago, the Financial Times announced its revered 2021 FT1000 Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies list. Now in its fifth year, the annual list of Europe’s high-growth companies has always identified brilliant innovations and it’s with great pride and gratitude to the team and our NHS partners that we saw Locum’s Nest entering the famous FT1000 for the first time.
Specifically, Locum’s Nest ranked:
#46 across all categories
#15 in the Technology category
#14 amongst other UK companies
But all of this is almost irrelevant compared to what I feel the bigger picture is. The team at Locum’s Nest have been revolutionising the way healthcare workers are supported with technology in the NHS. Archaic processes that cost the NHS billions of pounds are on their way out and new ways of working with NHS hospitals working together are emerging. 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 on their list.
To come up with its recognised list, the FT1000 Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies compiled inputs from market and consumer data provider Statista, which conducted months of research, public calls, intensive database research and directly contacted tens of thousands of companies.
Despite the extremely difficult year the world has faced, it’s a huge honour to be included in this eminent list of Europe’s highest growth innovations and, I hope a testament of the trust our ever-growing NHS partners have placed in us.
I would like to thank Nikki Hill, who was at the Royal Surrey NHS FT when we first founded Locum’s Nest and gave us our first green light to launch the platform in the NHS, as well as Elaine Beaumont, Colleen Sherlock, Louise Mckenzie and Suzanne Rankin from Ashford & St Peter’s Hospitals NHS FT when pioneering the NHS’ first ever collaborative bank model which is now rapidly growing as the de-facto best practice across the NHS.
We would be nowhere without our partners in the NHS shaping who we are and how we deliver our service, and are all very much looking forward to the exciting developments we have planned for the rest of 2021.