DRC Locums Master Vendor model is a self-funded, managed recruitment solution (i.e. there are no additional management fees payable) with a proven ability to deliver a measurable cost reduction of around 20% in agency worker spend usually within the first 12 months, whilst improving both security and quality of supply.

We seek to costumise our Master Vendor service for each client by using a Balanced Scorecard approach that ensures the needs and concerns of all client stakeholders are fully understood and addressed within the scope of a formal Service Level Agreement (SLA).

Our market-leading Quality Improvement Programme is strongly client-focused and driven by agreed Balanced Scorecard metrics to ensure our ability to achieve agreed KPIs and to mentor and performance manage other suppliers to the same standards.

In summary, a Master Vendor agreement with DRC offers the following benefits:

  • Measurable reduction of costs, through providing quality agency workers for less
  • Measurable reduction of indirect costs by working with our clients to streamline, and performance manage the supply chain process
  • Application of industry-leading candidate vetting and screening processes, ensuring consistency in the high quality of agency worker introduced to our clients
  • Application of a tried an tested candidate attraction strategy which has been implemented across over 100 contracts, ensuring that all agency workers are of the highest standard
  • Dedicated account management ensuring a genuine partnership working relationship
  • Detailed and consultative implementation processes
  • High quality management information detailing all information required in order to manage every aspect of a client's medical workers expenditure and the performance of DRC Locums and other suppliers
  • Dedicated support of the industry's most knowledgeable specialist medical recruiters with a track record of successfully servicing multiple NHS framework agreements since 2005