Bedrock offers locum solution

Bedrock Optical has launched a website that can be used by practitioners to find locums and to use as a jobs board to post openings for locums.

Locums register free on the website www.bedrockoptical.com, and once enough have posted their available dates, practices can buy access to the site to contact them.

Calling his site an 'online locum supply solution', creator Russ Tebbitts said that Bedrock Optical was a simple and affordable way to find locum cover without using a third party that charges fees.

'As the former owner of a locum agency, I know the frustration and the difficulties practices that use locums go through in order to attract and secure locum optometrists or dispensing opticians. On top of this there are the cost implications of the daily placement fees that the practice has to pay the locum agency with each confirmed date taken,' he said.