Blog - Remedium

Visas: A guide for doctors moving to the UK

If you are a doctor who is looking to make the move to the UK’s National Health Service, you are likely to many have questions around what visa you need and how you would go about getting one. In this article, we outline the answers to some visa questions that we are commonly asked by our doctors who are preparing for life in the UK.

NHS Staffing Frameworks: A Guide for Candidates

If you are a doctor who is looking to make their next UK career move, you may be wondering how to ensure that you are being represented by a reputable agency. This is an especially important consideration for international doctors who are relocating to the UK. One way to ensure that you are working with a trustworthy business is to check if they are on a recognised NHS framework.

Meet our CEO: David Green

In 2013, David founded Remedium with the single vision of reducing excessive NHS agency locum spend. He spotted a gap in the market for a medical recruitment business that focussed exclusively on permanent doctors.

NHS waiting lists: What can be done

Last night, BBC Panorama aired their latest documentary, NHS: Wait or Pay. At Remedium, we are on a mission to solve the NHS healthcare staffing crisis.

MRCEM OSCE Crash Course with Dr Danish Salim and Remedium

Attaining Membership of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine or MRCEM is required to attain GMC Registration and start your Emergency Medicine career in the NHS.

Recruitment Process Outsourcing – An Agile Approach for an Evolving NHS

At Remedium, we understand that each trust experiences different recruitment challenges. These include but are not limited to reducing time to hire, locum expenditure, attracting the right candidates, as well as improving employee retention.

Candidate On-Boarding: Combining Digital Power with the Human Touch

How can Remedium remove the stresses and the strains of organising the relocation of healthcare professionals?

Doctor Recruitment UK: Covid-19 travel updates for overseas doctors

Last night, the UK government announced changes to the Covid-19 travel rules which opens up jobs within the NHS to thousands of overseas doctors – particularly those from India, the UAE, Bahrain and Qatar.

COVID-19 has highlighted resilience of NHS Radiology, but also exposed fragility

According to RCR, the clinical radiology workforce shortfall will be 44% by 2025. Ian Legg, Radiology Recruitment Specialist at Remedium, explores the impact of this prediction and how we can tackle the problem.

Guest Post: How to manage stress and anxiety as a hospital doctor

In this guest blog, Dr. Caroline Walker, full-time Doctor’s Wellbeing Specialist and founder at The Joyful Doctor, offers practical advice for clinicians on how they can manage stress and anxiety, ahead of our upcoming Healing our Healers webinar.

We’re proud of our international NHS clinical workforce

Dido Harding wants to end England’s reliance on foreign doctors but we believe our diverse international NHS workforce should be celebrated.

Don’t use locum doctors for routine services

There will always be a need for locum doctors. However, many in the NHS are unnecessarily being used for routine services. This is costly and damaging to patient care.

Understanding NHS banding and doctors pay scales

NHS banding and pay scale questions are common for doctors joining the National Health Service. Here’s all you need to know about NHS doctors pay scales.

MPs warn of NHS staff burnout “emergency” which risks the future of the health service

This week, the Government released a highly critical report which said that healthcare staff were burnt out due to a shortage of staff. As the leading voice on the clinical workforce shortages facing our NHS, Remedium wholly support this report.