Medical Locum Agency Provision

The Cardiff and Vale University Health Board have an urgent requirement to appoint into a specialist recruitment essential for continuation of medical cover.

Risks of not appointing agency medical cover

If we do not make an appointment then the impact to patient care will be:

1. Provision of the essential core medical capacity required to maintain the existing service within mental health setting, including out of hours commitments would be compromised – risks to patients would increase.

2. Sustainable workforce plan for MDT services would be undeliverable without these post being filled – this could lead to unacceptable staff pressures across the service.

3. Without these post- holders we could not continue to modernise services in the context of New Ways of Working.

Risks of not appointing agency medical cover

If we do not make an appointment then the impact to patient care will be:

1. Provision of the essential core medical capacity required to maintain the existing service within mental health setting, including out of hours commitments would be compromised – risks to patients would increase.

It is anticipated that the cover is required for a period of up to 6 months whilst a recruitment process is completed within the Health Board via NHS Jobs.

The purpose of this VEAT is to put some compliance around the interim arrangements of providing cover whilst the formal recruitment process is completed and appointed

2. Sustainable workforce plan for MDT services would be undeliverable without these post being filled – this could lead to unacceptable staff pressures across the service.

3. Without these post- holders we could not continue to modernise services in the context of New Ways of Working.