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Yes it was Ray From: Accident and Emergency Academic List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andrew Webster Sent: 12 February 2016 19:28 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Agency Caps on Locums That might have happened in an ED in Yorkshire Sent from my iPad On 12 Feb 2016, at 19:17, Doc Holiday <[log in to unmask]> wrote: I have spoken with colleagues in other EDs about this. One "tactic" which has been employed for when good locums no longer "bite" is to offer them a different role, e.g. ask a good STR1-level doc to do a ST4-level shift which is "created" for this purpose. Of course, once that person shows up, he/she will be working at whatever level they worked at before and are paid at that same rate as before - it's only labelled differently. I am told that this idea was suggested by the agency... Only a rumour, I guess... _____ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 18:48:50 +0000 From: [log in to unmask] Subject: Agency Caps on Locums To: [log in to unmask] https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/478694/Price_caps_reference_tables_v2.pdf I was wondering how departments in England were coping with the Agency caps on hourly rates for locums? I've heard of one ED dept who lost all their locums only to have to employ more expensive but less experienced ones eventually. Of course the limits are not operating in Scotland, Wales or N.Ireland..... and I have lost a Consultant locum to the latter. Ray McGlone