locums

Doctors are forced to work longer than 48 hours, trainees – albeit senior trainees working to become consultants – are left in charge, locums are having to be employed and consultants end up having to stay overnight unexpectedly in the hospital because there is no one else.

Third of NHS children's units fail to comply with EU working time directive 2011

The public are probably not aware that that's being solved by crisis management, particularly during mid-winter with things like flu, with consultants stepping in overnight or employing locums at the last moment.

NHS children's care at risk through lack of well-qualified doctors and nurses 2011

England, too, have had locums closer at hand in recent years and owed a debt to two of them, Angus Fraser and Chris Lewis, for one of the most thrilling and unexpected wins of the past 20 years, in the fourth Test at Adelaide in 1995.

Pakistan hopes pinned on Mohammad Yousuf riding to rescue in third Test 2010

They have temporary substitutions, locums, and a support staff in place.

How to Plan a Freelancer Vacation So You Can Refuel 2009

I was told today after I explained that 'my GP' had not after two months even renewed prescriptions and was told, "That's what you've got Elizabeth, there are lots of doctors, they just don't want to take patients, or have practices, there are lots of locums around."

Triage Elizabeth McClung 2009

Lots of double counting of doctors that move for example, locums moving from one area to another are counted each time they move.

Doctor Blue: High Friction High Fiction Dr Rant 2007

This included the recruitment of locums and temporary staff, he said.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

I sometimes wish that I had not had the good fortune to get my first book accepted immediately, for then I should have continued with medicine; I should have got the usual hospital appointments, gone as assistant to general practitioners in various parts of the country, and done locums; I should thus have acquired a mass of valuable experience.

The Summing Up Maugham, W Somerset 1938

She explained that her husband was a curate, a good deal older than herself, who had difficulty in getting permanent work since vicars wanted young men to assist them; he earned a little now and then by doing locums when someone took a holiday or fell ill, and a charitable institution gave them a small pension; but her life was lonely, it would be something to do to look after

Of Human Bondage 1915

Health trusts have increasingly relied on locums drawn from

Evening Standard - Home Tom Harper 2011