RIG Healthcare

What RIG Healthcare does

RIG Healthcare is a UK-based specialist healthcare recruitment firm that supplies qualified medical professionals to NHS trusts and healthcare facilities across the United Kingdom. The company operates across six distinct healthcare verticals — Doctors, Imaging, Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Care, and Therapy — maintaining dedicated specialist teams for each discipline. It is headquartered in Bromley and employs between 101 and 250 people.

The business model is a professional services intermediary model: RIG Healthcare earns revenue by placing locum and permanent healthcare professionals with NHS trusts and other healthcare organizations, charging placement or supply fees on each engagement. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and follows a contact-based engagement model typical of recruitment services. Go-to-market is sales-led, with direct enterprise relationships between RIG's vertical teams and NHS staffing coordinators and healthcare facility decision-makers. Marketing and candidate engagement is supported through the righealthcare.co.uk web presence, with candidates and clients routed into the broader Cpl Group properties.

RIG Healthcare is wholly owned by Cpl Group, a recruitment partner with over 35 years of industry experience that originated in Ireland and has a growing UK presence. Cpl Group acquired both RIG Medical Recruit Limited and RIG Locums Limited in 2017. In 2025, RIG Medical Recruit Limited was merged into RIG Locums Limited, with the combined entity now trading as Cpl UK Healthcare. The rebrand preserved the specialist teams and NHS compliance posture while integrating RIG's healthcare specialization more tightly with the wider Cpl Group's talent solutions portfolio. The company continues to meet all stated NHS and legislative requirements as its core compliance posture.

Name

RIG Healthcare

Legal name

RIG Locums Limited

Website

https://righealthcare.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

RIG Healthcare is a UK-based specialist recruitment firm that places qualified medical professionals — across Doctors, Imaging, Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Care, and Therapy — with NHS trusts and healthcare facilities. It operates as a subsidiary of Cpl Group, trading as Cpl UK Healthcare since 2025.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Staffing & Recruitment Services

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare Clinical & Allied Health Staffing (BPACADAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

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

Keywords

• Healthcare recruitment
• Medical staffing services
• NHS locum placement
• Clinical workforce solutions
• Healthcare talent acquisition

Headquarters

HQ city

Bromley

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Healthcare Recruitment Services: RIG Healthcare generates revenue by placing healthcare professionals (doctors, nurses, imaging specialists, pharmacists, social care workers, and therapists) with NHS trusts and healthcare organizations. The company acts as an intermediary connecting qualified healthcare talent with healthcare facilities requiring staffing support.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

RIG Healthcare supplies qualified healthcare professionals — including doctors, imaging specialists, nurses, pharmacists, social care workers, and therapists — to the UK's National Health Service (NHS) and other healthcare organizations. The firm operates as a specialist recruitment intermediary, placing both temporary (locum) and permanent staff across six dedicated healthcare verticals while maintaining NHS and legislative compliance standards. As a subsidiary of Cpl Group, services are delivered directly through specialized vertical teams in the UK market.

Product overview

RIG Healthcare operates as a specialized healthcare recruitment platform providing staffing solutions across multiple medical disciplines. The company offers recruitment services for Doctors, Imaging, Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Care, and Therapy professionals, connecting healthcare facilities with qualified talent. The company rebranded from RIG Medical Recruit Limited and RIG Locums Limited into Cpl UK Healthcare in 2025, becoming part of the wider Cpl Group while maintaining its specialized healthcare recruitment focus.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Healthcare Recruitment Services (Doctors, Imaging, Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Care, Therapy) Specialist healthcare recruitment services supplying qualified doctors, imaging specialists, nurses, pharmacists, social care workers and therapists to NHS trusts and healthcare organizations across the UK on a temporary (locum) and permanent basis. The service is delivered through dedicated vertical specialist teams with NHS and legislative compliance built in.

Named customers1 record

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Cpl GroupcoreOthersCpl Group acquired both RIG Medical Recruit Limited and RIG Locums Limited in 2017. In 2025, RIG Medical Recruit Limited officially merged into RIG Locums Limited, trading as Cpl UK Healthcare. This integration gives RIG Healthcare access to the full range of expertise and talent solutions across the wider Cpl Group.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Medacs Healthcare: Medacs Healthcare is a global healthcare staffing provider placing doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals. It is a direct peer to RIG in locum and permanent medical recruitment, particularly into NHS settings.
• Pertemps Healthcare: Pertemps operates a dedicated healthcare division placing nurses, care staff, and allied health professionals across the UK. It competes directly with RIG in NHS and private healthcare recruitment across multiple verticals.
• ID Medical: ID Medical is a leading UK healthcare recruitment specialist placing doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals into NHS trusts. It is one of the closest direct competitors to RIG Healthcare in clinical and allied health staffing across the UK.
• Pulse Jobs: Pulse is a major UK and international healthcare staffing brand recruiting nurses, doctors, allied health, and social care professionals. It is a directly comparable peer given RIG's overlap in nursing, doctors, social care, and therapy verticals.
• Maxxima: Maxxima is a UK specialist recruitment firm focused on healthcare and life sciences, covering allied health, nursing, and medical roles. It directly competes with RIG in placing clinicians and allied health professionals into NHS and private healthcare providers.

Others

• Cpl Group: Cpl Group is RIG Healthcare's parent company, a 35+ year-old international recruitment firm headquartered in Ireland with growing UK presence. While not a peer in the strict sense, Cpl's broader recruitment scale and cross-sector capabilities are directly relevant to RIG's competitive context.

Emerging players

• NHS Professionals: NHS Professionals is the NHS's in-house staff bank provider offering temporary staffing to NHS trusts. While not a private recruiter, it increasingly competes with agencies like RIG by filling shifts directly through NHS bank models, affecting RIG's market share.

Broad incumbents

• Reed Specialist Recruitment: Reed is a large UK generalist recruiter with a dedicated healthcare division placing doctors, nurses, and allied professionals. As a broader incumbent with extensive NHS framework presence, it overlaps with RIG but operates at significantly larger scale.
• Michael Page Healthcare: Michael Page is a large generalist recruiter with a UK Healthcare division serving NHS trusts and private providers. It overlaps with RIG in permanent and interim healthcare placements but at much broader scale.
• Hays Life Sciences: Hays is a global recruiter with a UK Life Sciences and Healthcare practice placing into NHS, pharma, and clinical settings. It is a broad incumbent that competes with RIG in pharmacy, life sciences, and clinical recruitment.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/righealthcare
• Facebookfacebook.com/righealthcarerecruit
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/rig-healthcare

Compliance1 record

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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