NHS launch London 'COVID-19 Digital Staff Bank' platform

A group of London hospitals have banded together to create the London COVID-19 Digital Staff Bank: a centralised cloud-based platform for staff recruitment. The 14 hospitals are working together in conjunction with Patchwork Health and Reed Talent Solutions to ensure that temporary staffing contracts are filled appropriately and swiftly during the COVID-19 emergency. With up to a fifth of staff absent from some London hospitals as a consequence of COVID-19, there is demand for easy access to urgent, flexible shift-work. The staff bank broadcasts recruitment requests from all participating hospitals and trusts, connecting clinicians from all over London and enabling them to respond to demand wherever it is.