During the COVID-19 pandemic, many hospitals and health systems turned to locum tenens physicians and advanced practitioners to help meet the increased demand for patient care. Locums positions allow ...

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.

Despite the well-publicised twin scandals of "unsustainable" pressures on general practice and "totally unacceptable" patient waiting times for GP appointments, a majority of locum GPs are struggling ...

DALLAS, April 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Physicians and advanced practice professionals are opting for the flexibility of temporary, “locum tenens” work in order to improve job conditions and ...

One in ten hospitalists is working as locum tenens, and many do so in addition to their full-time job, according to a new study by recruitment firm Locum Leaders and Today's Hospitalist magazine, ...

ALPHARETTA, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jackson + Coker Locum Tenens, a leader in staffing solutions for locum tenens, today announced that it has been named a winner of Staffing Industry Analysts’ (SIA) ...

Soon, I will join the almost 50,000 physicians who make up the expensive team of medical temp workers in the United States, [1] a physician "placeholder" with all the perks and inconveniences attached ...

Old-fashioned GPs who work full-time in a family surgery are fast becoming a dying breed, according to figures obtained by The Mail on Sunday. Just over one general practitioner in ten is now in a ...

Junior doctors are being encouraged by their union to pick up lucrative locum shifts after this week's 96-hour strike action when hospitals will be in chaos. The British Medical Association has ...