Now is the time to take back control
Our NHS is struggling. The national workforce crisis has left our NHS vulnerable to staffing agencies who have exploited a need to fill our workforce gaps. It’s about time we said no to extortionate introduction fees, hourly premiums and poor compliance. LinkMedics give our NHS family back control, ensuring the right candidates, with right skills are retained locally for the long-term.
Did you know that over 40% of frontline NHS doctors qualify abroad? Overseas trained doctors are a vital asset to the NHS and will continue to play a pivotal role as the NHS resets and recovers from the pandemic. Our conversion course provides the highest quality and accessible training for British overseas trained doctors, whilst reducing the need to employ poorly compliant locum doctors. We focus on the training and education, and by working collaboratively with our partner trusts, we provide substantive employment opportunities for overseas doctors starting their career in the NHS.
If you’re an NHS Trust, Hospital or Health Board in UK and want to find out more about our service provisions, please contact us on hello@thelinkmedics.com.
Compliance
Conversion
Recruitment
Retention
Save time and resources
Our programme helps you develop essential clinical skills, such as cannulation, venepuncture and catheterization through in-hospital experience, combined with live patient contact and clinical skills labs. You will also gain first-hand experience of junior doctor duties in the NHS, from clerking patients, ward-based skills and clinical examinations in a safe and supported hospital environment. Our flagship “buddy on-call” scheme will allow you to build on more acute management skills where you act more independently.
Levelling the playing field
Our programme helps you develop essential clinical skills, such as cannulation, venepuncture and catheterization through in-hospital experience, combined with live patient contact and clinical skills labs. You will also gain first-hand experience of junior doctor duties in the NHS, from clerking patients, ward-based skills and clinical examinations in a safe and supported hospital environment. Our flagship “buddy on-call” scheme will allow you to build on more acute management skills where you act more independently.
Pastoral Care
During the programme, you are assigned a LinkMedics mentor, who is a practising NHS consultant. You are also given a “peer mentor”, an overseas-trained doctor who has been through the process and can share their unbiased, personal experiences.
You are also assigned a clinical and educational supervisor in Trust (often the same person) who can support your progression whilst you are working. By working collaboratively with your NHS Trust, LinkMedics design a personalised development plan that outlines your progress through the programme.
Your NHS roadmap
There’s a plethora of information out there that sometimes needs to be clarified. During our programme, we set the record straight and give you a clear structure for fulfilling your foundation competencies through CREST and progressing your NHS career.
During your initial mentor meeting, we will outline your goals, expectations and ambitions to develop a personal development plan specific to you. We always have speciality training in mind and will guide you through this process. We work with mentors from various specialities, from general practice, acute medicine to surgery and can help you make a more informed decision.
Save Resources
We do the resourcing ground-work for you
Control Expenditure
Utilise the millions saved on agency spend on patient care
Substantive Only Model
Build a cost-effective Trust Grade Workforce (TGW)
Doctor Retention
Long-term retention of highly-trained, highly-skilled doctors
Quality Assured Programme
Governed by GMC, Health Education England and NHS Resolution
Guaranteed Compliance
Collaborative learning of your hospital polices & the NHS system