Locum tenens are being increasingly used in hospitals, ambulatory care centers, urgent care clinics, primary care clinics, and long-term acute care centers, and the trend shows no signs of reversing.

There is little hard evidence to support the widely held perception that locum doctors present a greater risk of causing harm to patients. There is little hard evidence to support the widely held ...

More doctors are working locum tenens, taking a temporary job in hospitals, group practices and clinics. They choose locum tenens work for a variety of reasons: good pay, the freedom to live in a new ...

Gives doctors instant access to medical locum jobs searches while on the move JCJ Locums, a market leading medical recruitment agency and part of HCL plc, has launched a free iPhone application (app) ...

Dr. Colin Zhu thought about starting a family practice. But the 33-year osteopathic physician realized all the management, paperwork, and financial overhead might distract him from what he enjoyed ...

Figures from NHS Improvement, which seeks to drive down agency staff costs, show hospitals in England reported 241,195 breaches of the £76.10 per hour pay cap between July and September last year. A ...

Working arrangements for locum doctors pose significant patient safety challenges for the NHS in England, although there are opportunities to be grasped too, finds qualitative research involving a ...

At its inception, locum roles were meant to last only a few weeks or months, during which the facility would complete the proper documentation and budgeting needed for permanent employment. Locum ...

The BMJ is an international peer reviewed medical journal and a fully "online first" publication. Our publishing model–"continuous publication"– means that all articles appear on bmj.com before being ...

As a travelling physician in northern Ontario, Dannica Switzer is acutely aware of the health-care crisis in underserved communities. “It's sad to see how much worse things can get,” said Switzer, who ...

There is little hard evidence to support the widely held perception that locum doctors present a greater risk of causing harm to patients, according to new research published by the Journal of the ...