ID Medical

What ID Medical does

ID Medical Group Ltd is a UK-headquartered healthcare workforce solutions provider founded in 2002 and registered in Milton Keynes. It recruits and places doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals (AHPs/HSS) across locum, agency, and permanent engagement models into NHS trusts, primary care, community settings, and mental health services, claiming coverage of 95%+ of NHS trusts and 8M+ hours placed annually. Revenue is generated primarily through placement fees and managed-service charges negotiated with NHS organisations under accredited framework agreements (NHS Workforce Alliance, NHS Scotland, NHS Wales SSP, NHS SBS, HealthTrust Europe, G-Cloud, RM6281), with pricing per shift or contract and no publicly disclosed rate card.

Name

ID Medical

Legal name

ID Medical Group Ltd

Website

https://id-medical.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

ID Medical is a UK-based healthcare staffing agency recruiting and placing doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals into NHS trusts under accredited framework agreements, additionally offering international recruitment, clinical insourcing services, and a workforce technology platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Staffing Services

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare Clinical Direct Hire (Nursing/Allied/Physicians) (BPACAFAH)

Keywords

• Healthcare staffing
• Medical recruitment
• Nurse recruitment
• Doctor recruitment
• International healthcare recruitment

Headquarters

HQ city

Milton Keynes

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Healthcare Staffing Placement Fees: ID Medical charges healthcare organisations (primarily NHS trusts) for placing locum doctors, agency nurses, and allied health professionals. Revenue is generated through commission on placed shifts and permanent placements. They provide temporary staffing solutions for short-term needs and permanent staffing solutions for long-term placements.
2. Clinical Services (Insourcing/Outsourcing): ID Medical Clinical Services provides insourcing solutions where they bring skilled external healthcare professionals into NHS settings. This helps trusts reduce waiting lists and recover elective services. They mobilise clinical teams for weekend services, diagnostics, and procedures.
3. International Recruitment Services: Comprehensive international recruitment services for doctors and nurses from overseas, including relocation support, visa assistance, and settlement services. They have deployed over 5,000 international healthcare workers.
4. Workforce Technology Platform: Providing technology solutions for workforce management to NHS trusts, including their digital staffing platform that acts as a collaborative roster system, staff bank and agency bank.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

ID Medical is a UK healthcare staffing agency that recruits and places doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals into NHS trusts and healthcare organisations on both temporary (locum/agency) and permanent bases. It complements core recruitment with international recruitment (visa, relocation, language training), clinical insourcing/outsourcing services to reduce NHS waiting lists, managed service provider (MSP) workforce solutions, and a proprietary digital workforce technology platform with a mobile app for shift management.

Product overview

ID Medical is a UK healthcare workforce solutions provider operating a platform-plus-services model. The core offering comprises three primary recruitment service lines: Doctors Recruitment (locum and permanent across all grades/specialties), Nursing Recruitment (all bands from HCA to specialist), and AHP & HSS Recruitment. These are complemented by International Recruitment Services for overseas healthcare professionals. Supporting modules include Clinical Services (insourcing/outsourcing solutions for NHS trusts), Workforce Technology (digital staffing platform for shift management), Managed Services (MSP/vendor solutions), ID Medical Connect (mobile app for shift management), ID Medical Academy (IELTS/OET training), Doctor's Revalidation Support, and Patient Services (community minor operations). The portfolio is unified by a shared compliance infrastructure, 100K+ candidate pool, and framework accreditations across NHS procurement frameworks.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ID Medical Connect: Mobile application for healthcare professionals to update availability, view and manage booked shifts, and access support
• ID Medical Academy
• ID Medical Clinical Services (IDMCS)

Products and services

• Doctors Recruitment Locum and permanent placement services for doctors across all grades and specialties including Acute, Primary Care, Community, and Mental Health settings, supplied to NHS trusts and healthcare organisations.
• Nursing Recruitment Agency and permanent placement services for nurses across all bands (HCA through to specialist roles) in Acute, Community, Primary Care, and Mental Health nursing for NHS trusts and healthcare providers.
• AHP & HSS Recruitment Temporary and permanent placement services for Allied Health Professionals and Health Science Service staff including physiotherapists, radiographers, and occupational therapists across UK healthcare settings.
• International Recruitment Services Overseas placement services helping international doctors and nurses relocate to the UK, including visa sponsorship, GMC/NMC registration support, language training via ID Medical Academy, and relocation assistance.
• Clinical Services (Insourcing/Outsourcing) CQC-registered clinical insourcing and outsourcing solutions where ID Medical supplies healthcare professionals to NHS trusts for weekend clinics and service expansion to reduce waiting lists, including Endoscopy, ADHD/Autism Assessments, and Cardiology staffing support.
• Workforce Technology (Digital Staff Bank Platform) Award-winning digital staffing platform that acts as a collaborative Roster System, Staff Bank and Agency Bank, enabling compliance document uploads, shift booking, and communication with rota managers for NHS trusts.
• Managed Services Managed Service Provider (MSP) solutions including Master Vendor and Neutral Vendor models for workforce supply chain management across NHS trusts.
• ID Medical Connect Mobile application for nurses and healthcare professionals enabling shift management, availability updates, viewing and managing booked shifts, and accessing support in one tap.
• ID Medical Academy Educational support offering IELTS and OET training programmes at discounted rates for international healthcare professionals preparing for UK practice registration.
• Doctor's Revalidation Support Personalised guidance and appraisal services for doctors completing GMC revalidation requirements, including documentation support and reflective practice assistance.
• Patient Services (Minor Operations) Community-based clinical services including Minor Operations Service at Felixstowe and Community Skin Surgery Service in Bath, delivering procedures outside hospital settings.

Quantifiable outcome

• 8M+ hours placed annually across the NHS
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• NHS Workforce AlliancecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorNHS Workforce Alliance is a procurement framework that ID Medical is accredited through, allowing NHS trusts to procure clinical and healthcare staffing services through established government procurement channels.
• NHS ScotlandcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorNHS Scotland framework agreement enabling ID Medical to provide healthcare staffing services to NHS Scotland trusts and health boards.
• NHS Wales Shared Services PartnershipcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFramework partnership enabling ID Medical to supply healthcare professionals to NHS Wales organisations.
• NHS Shared Business ServicescoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorNHS SBS framework agreement for workforce staffing solutions enabling public sector procurement.
• HealthTrust EuropecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorHealthTrust Europe framework for clinical and healthcare staffing providing access to NHS and public sector procurement opportunities.
• HM Government G-Cloud SuppliercoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorG-Cloud framework supplier status allowing public sector bodies to procure cloud-based workforce technology and services through the Government Digital Marketplace.
• Care Quality CommissioncoreOthersCare Quality Commission regulates and inspects health and social care services in England. ID Medical's Clinical Services division is CQC registered as a provider of healthcare services.
• Clinical and Healthcare Staffing RM6281 FrameworkcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCrown Commercial Service framework for clinical and healthcare staffing services enabling public sector procurement.
• Health and Social Care (HSC) Northern IrelandminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorHSC Northern Ireland framework partnership for healthcare staffing services in Northern Ireland.
• ID Medical AcademycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerID Medical's own academy offering IELTS and medical English support courses at exclusively discounted rates to help international healthcare professionals meet GMC and NMC language requirements for UK practice.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Pulse Jobs (Pulse Healthcare): UK healthcare recruitment agency providing temporary and permanent staffing for doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and healthcare scientists across NHS and private clients — direct competitor across ID Medical's core disciplines.
• Your World Healthcare: UK healthcare recruiter placing nurses, doctors, allied health professionals and healthcare assistants into NHS and private settings — a similar-sized specialist agency competing for the same NHS framework contracts.
• Athona Recruitment: UK-based healthcare and education recruitment firm placing doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and educators — overlapping disciplines, geographies and NHS framework participation.
• Medacs Healthcare: UK-based global healthcare staffing agency placing locum doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, and social workers across the NHS and private sector — the closest head-to-head competitor to ID Medical across all major clinical disciplines.
• NHS Professionals: NHS-owned in-house staffing bank supplying temporary staff to NHS trusts — the structural in-house competitor that any external agency, including ID Medical, must contend with under the NHS's 'reduce agency reliance' agenda.
• HCL Healthcare: UK healthcare staffing specialist supplying doctors, nurses and allied health professionals to NHS trusts on framework agreements — operates a comparable locum/permanent placement model with similar framework accreditation strategy.

Broad incumbents

• Reed Specialist Recruitment: UK-headquartered generalist recruiter with a long-established healthcare division supplying NHS and private clients — broader recruitment remit but directly overlapping on nursing and allied health placements.
• Hays plc: Global FTSE-listed recruitment group with a sizable UK healthcare and life sciences practice — competes on NHS locum and permanent placements as part of a much broader portfolio spanning multiple sectors and geographies.
• PageGroup (Michael Page): Global FTSE-listed recruitment firm operating Michael Page and Page Personnel — overlaps with ID Medical primarily on permanent healthcare and clinical placements at the mid-to-senior end.

Regional players

• Cpl Resources (Cpl Healthcare): Dublin-headquartered recruitment group whose Cpl Healthcare division supplies doctors, nurses and allied health professionals across Ireland and the UK — comparable healthcare staffing model with UK presence but primary geographic focus on Ireland.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/groups/idmedical
• Xx.com/IDMedical
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/id-medical

Compliance10 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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