Understaffing on this scale "will have serious consequences for patient safety", increase burnout among staff and force trusts to hire in locum (temporary) personnel.
"All of our health boards are spending hundreds of thousands of pounds in locum costs, agency costs, extra payments to doctors, to maintain these rotas.
Furthermore, 3.6% were employed in Locum posts and 0.2% have retired from NHS work.
This includes late salary payments, delays in increasing salaries after a promotion, or inconsistencies in locum allowance payments.
Most midwives in the Netherlands begin their careers working in locum positions for a few years before leaving this job type and usually becoming an employee or partner in an independent midwifery practice [ 8].
Consultants and general practitioners were likely to score 0.074 points higher than doctors in other contractual roles, whereas doctors in locum posts were likely to score 0.093 points lower than those in permanent positions.
Doctors who received lower feedback scores from their colleagues were those qualifying outside of the UK or South Asia, those working in locum posts, and those not working as a general practitioner or in a consultant role (such as doctors in associate specialist or staff grade roles).
Participants' years of CRNA experience ranged from student through 40 years, and participants represented a minimum of 10 states; many had military experience, had worked in several states in both rural and urban settings, and some had worked in locum tenens positions.
"That pushes the prices up and up, so we are stuck in a locums' market, with hospitals forced into a bidding war".
16 Since there is a shortage of GPs in Sweden, locums are employed for shorter or longer periods and, according to the same survey, 949 locum doctors served in primary care during autumn 2012 on an ordinary Tuesday.
