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.

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.

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.

With a vast amount of knowledge and data accumulated over the past 6 years, hundreds of focus groups with clinicians and an extensive network of partners including advanced rostering system Rotageek and established Allocate Software, Locum's Nest has now proudly launched Locum’s Nest Rota, the e-rostering service providing an advanced and quality end-to-end NHS workforce solution to front line medics.

The Covid-19 outbreak has rapidly changed healthcare provision requirements across the nation in a dynamic manner. Staying true to our values of transparency and honesty, we wanted to share the main areas of development work where we shifted priorities to make room for Covid-related work.

Through our proprietary recruitment and digital passport platforms we make it extremely easy for someone to apply to join a staff bank, submit their pre-employment checks and have them processed. Now, we’re able to take this a step further and offer a fully flexible concierge service with our exclusive partners at ACI, boosting our NHS partners’ in-house compliance capabilities, thereby ensuring candidates are cleared to work even faster.

It is our responsibility to provide a higher standard of service and provide a pathway for customers to take advantage of new technologies efficiently and effectively. Total transparency means that tech companies don’t manipulate the speed of implementation when the ultimate goal is to bridge all tech gaps wherever possible to make the everyday lives of our healthcare professionals easier and safer, putting patient-centred care at the forefront.

Our new workforce solution ensures a completely streamlined process from predicting staffing needs in advance, improving staff engagement, to free on-demand payment to the clinician after the shift is completed, within both hospital Trusts and General Practice.

We have now released our Covid-19 Workforce Intelligence Navigator (WIN), allowing NHS organisations to better predict their workforce needs in the coming weeks and months, and enabling them to have the appropriate clinical cover already in place when required.

It’s been an exciting start to the year here at Locum’s Nest as in only two weeks we have launched in 3 new NHS Foundation Trusts and nearly 100 GP Practices, providing clinicians using Locum’s Nest with increased flexibility of work scope and workload.

For a company which is just three years old, winning a single award this year would have made me very proud. As we finish 2019, Locum’s Nest has won not just one award, but four. It’s not why we do what we do, but my god it feels good!

With more and more organisations becoming available on the app, what better time to highlight some best practices to ensure you are getting the most out of the app.