The key to effective Locum spending is to understand which posts are proving most expensive. In most Trusts only 10% of posts account for 50% of Locum spending. By identifying these roles and tackling their problems you can have a disproportionately large impact on your Locum spending.

Typically these posts are incurring excess costs for one of the following reasons:

• Rota design - if a Rota is poorly designed it can be creating your problem position(s)
• Rota planning - a Rota must be realistic in its aims if it isn't to create a backlog for a future date
• Unplanned leave - if you don't have sufficient notice of your doctors' intentions then you can't plan for the changes

Even beyond high cost posts there are often savings to be made - for example - many Locums are employed even on Rotas with prospective cover.

To see how we have worked with Trusts up and down the country to solve these issues click here.