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.