| With the recent announcement of the emergency | | | | patient at the forefront of locum doctor employment. |
| budget the NHS is having to find ways of cutting costs | | | | The debate on the employment of inexperienced |
| in order to preserve hospital departments. Permanent | | | | foreign locum doctors in NHS hospitals is far from |
| doctors are coming to the realisation that locum doctor | | | | being solved. There are however a small number of |
| jobs are a more financially viable way of gaining the | | | | medical recruitment agencies in the United Kingdom |
| experience needed to move to the next phase of their | | | | that are actively invested on improving the way that |
| career. This is placing a heavy burden on medical | | | | the NHS hires locum doctor for both short term and |
| staffing as UK experienced NHS doctors are charging | | | | long term locum vacancies are trying to help the NHS |
| exponential rates for their services forcing medical | | | | by coming up with innovative programs that help non |
| staffing to find more cost effective alternatives by | | | | UK experienced doctors gain the NHS hospital |
| employing cheaper inexperienced foreign doctors. The | | | | experience that they need, this not only minimises the |
| rise in the employment of foreign doctors has given | | | | damage on the NHS's reputation but also improves the |
| rise to an influx of medical recruitment agencies trying | | | | quality in patient care. |
| to get their own piece of the action. | | | | Such programs are the future of the NHS locum |
| The influx of so many foreign doctors into the United | | | | industry, the investment of doctor and patient care will |
| Kingdom poses both ethical and professional dilemmas. | | | | go a long way in improving the service that hospitals |
| A doctor that comes over to the United Kingdom, for | | | | are able to provide to their patients. It is a way for the |
| example looking for doctor jobs Ireland, from a foreign | | | | NHS to move forward in building careers for locum |
| country with a wealth of clinical experience and basic | | | | doctors and improving the quality and establishing a |
| knowledge of the English language does not make him | | | | working framework for medical staffing. This in turn |
| a "bad doctor" nor does it put NHS patients at risk but | | | | lessens the burden placed on head of medical |
| a doctor who is placed into a NHS hospital with limited | | | | department who will be rest assured that all locums in |
| clinical experience and excellent English abilities may. | | | | their care are fully trained and adept at performing |
| The NHS and recruitment agencies will need to work | | | | their given duties. |
| in partnership to ensure that they place the care of | | | | |