Once you register with a locum agency, our mission is to try and find you work as soon as possible. We sift through placements from an array of hospitals and departments across the whole UK, really honing in on the positions and places that will hit your check list criteria to ensure you are completely … [Read more…]
Here at Total Assist Group, we specialise in finding hospital placements across all the NHS trusts operating in the UK to locate a position that really ticks your boxes. However, we can only do that successfully once you have narrowed down what you want from locum work and how you want to utilise its flexibility … [Read more…]
Waiting time targets come under pressure as emergency departments fail Official figures show that England’s key A&E departments have now missed the four hour waiting time target for 52 consecutive weeks. Hospitals aim to see 95% of patients within the four hour time frame, however the last time A&E departments in 144 trusts hit that … [Read more…]
More patients being discharged after 11pm Research by the Liberal Democrats in Wales has revealed that 19,702 patients are being discharged from hospital between 11.00pm and 6.00am. The figures relate to inpatients admitted for treatments as opposed to A&E patients, with ministers concerned that they are being discharged overnight for no good reason. Local health … [Read more…]
Staffing level advice issued to stop compromised care The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has released new guidelines on safe nursing staffing levels, suggesting that having more than eight patients per nurse on a ward during the course of the day should act as a trigger to investigate patient safety. If one … [Read more…]
Over half of trusts having to temporarily close maternity wards to ease pressure Recent figures reveal that 51% of NHS trusts have had to temporarily shut maternity units over the past year, blaming lack of staff or beds as the reason why. Previous research by the Conservative Party in 2008 also showed that 42% of … [Read more…]
Variation in standards of care for dying hospital patients causes concerns The quality of care for end of life patients in hospitals has been labelled as “deeply concerning” by doctors who recently carried out a standard of care review. The audit of English hospitals revealed that only a fifth of hospitals provided end of life care seven … [Read more…]