Sentence examples for locums and from inspiring English sources

By the end it was staffed by locums and serving about 4,700 patients.

However, the prevalence of locums and holes in the rota, overstretched stressed GPs and A&E staff make the atmosphere toxic.

Public sector leaders worry that Brexit would cause significant staff shortages and increase the use of expensive locums and agency workers.

Edmund Stubbs, a healthcare researcher for Civitas, said: "It is evident that a lack of staff – or at least of staff willing to enter some specialities – is currently leading to excessive spending on agency staff, locums and overseas recruitment, exhausting financial resources that could be better used in training and employing full-time staff.

"We know there are risks with peripatetic locums, and we know that this risk is increasing rapidly.

Locums and junior staff (assistant professors) were placed in one group, and all advanced practice nurses were reported in one separate group.

June 2008 He resigned as a locum and has been involved in paediatric work for a charity in Africa and Asia.

A few months later, I reported this to his locum and then to my GP who said the same thing.

It adds: "The consequences, gravely damaging to the health and wellbeing of children, include increased difficulty in providing 24/7 paediatric cover, increasing need for locum and agency staff, and a reduction in innovation and medical advance".

"At present, staff shortages in less desirable specialities are met by employing overseas-trained, locum and agency staff at great expense and with a possible risk of reduced care quality and patient safety.

After a year's worth of access negotiation, I began filming with the Guardian this winter in two hospitals – Queen's where I work as a middle-grade locum, and Musgrove Park, in Taunton, Somerset, where Cliff Mann also works.