Medecho Ltd

What Medecho Ltd does

Medecho Ltd is a UK-based medical recruitment agency founded in 2004 and headquartered in London. The company specializes in the placement of locum doctors to NHS trusts and private healthcare facilities across the United Kingdom, operating across all four UK nations. It maintains a database of over 16,000 psychiatrists, serves 186+ NHS clients, has executed more than 29,912 cumulative successful placements, and lists approximately 2,083 active locum jobs at any given week.

The core offering is a managed locum staffing service delivered through an online job platform supported by a team of recruitment consultants. Candidate-to-vacancy matching is database-driven and consultant-vetted, with Medecho handling compliance checks, payroll administration, and booking logistics on behalf of healthcare providers. The firm holds ISO 9001 quality certification, is a member of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), and is accredited under multiple public-sector procurement frameworks including Crown Commercial Service RM3711 (awarded four consecutive times), NHS Scotland, NHS Collaborative Procurement Partnership, HealthTrust Europe, NHS Shared Business Services, and Health and Social Care Northern Ireland.

Revenue is generated through placement fees charged to healthcare providers as a margin over locum doctor pay rates, which range from approximately £30 to £80 per hour depending on grade and specialty. Go-to-market is sales-led, anchored by framework accreditation and direct consultant outreach, with secondary demand and supply generation through social media recruitment and attendance at medical exhibitions, where the firm reports having registered over 3,000 doctors. The customer base is concentrated in NHS trusts — a captive institutional segment under framework procurement — with a smaller private healthcare tail.

Name

Medecho Ltd

Legal name

Medecho Ltd

Website

https://medecho.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Medecho Ltd is a UK medical recruitment agency, founded in 2004 and headquartered in London, that places locum doctors into NHS trusts and private healthcare facilities under multiple UK public-sector staffing frameworks.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Staffing Services

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare Clinical & Allied Health Staffing (BPACADAJ)

Keywords

• Locum doctor recruitment
• Medical staffing agency
• NHS workforce solutions
• Healthcare temporary staffing
• Psychiatry locum supply

Headquarters

HQ city

London

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

Revenue model

1. Locum Doctor Placement Fees: Medecho generates revenue by placing locum doctors (temporary medical professionals) with NHS trusts and private healthcare facilities. The company acts as an intermediary, sourcing and placing qualified doctors in temporary positions, earning placement fees from the healthcare institutions they serve.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Medecho Ltd is a London-based locum doctor recruitment agency that supplies temporary medical staff—particularly psychiatrists—to NHS trusts and private healthcare facilities across the UK. The company runs an online compliance and registration process for candidates and operates under multiple NHS procurement framework agreements, with claimed service to 186+ NHS trusts and a database of 16,000+ clinicians.

Product overview

Medecho Ltd operates as a medical recruitment agency offering a unified platform for locum doctor placement across UK healthcare facilities. The core offering consists of a job search platform enabling doctors to find temporary positions filtered by specialty, location, and grade, complemented by NHS recruitment services that supply staffing through preferred supplier agreements. Additional services include managed services for workforce optimization and online compliance processing for candidate verification. The company places doctors across ten medical specialties including Surgery, Anaesthetics, Psychiatry, Medicine, Paediatrics, Ophthalmology, Neurology, Orthopaedics, Endocrinology, and Cardiology, serving both NHS trusts and private healthcare organizations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Locum Doctor Recruitment
• Specialist Psychiatry Locum Recruitment
• NHS Framework Recruitment Services
• Online Candidate Compliance and Registration

Quantifiable outcome

• 186+ NHS clients served
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Crown Commercial Service (CCS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMedecho has been awarded multiple framework agreements with the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) including RM3711 Multidisciplinary Framework for temporary healthcare personnel. Previously awarded on CCS FA RM1570 for medical locum doctors. Multiple CCS framework holder awards (4 times running). These framework agreements allow Medecho to supply staff to NHS trusts across the UK.
• NHS ScotlandcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFramework agreement holder for supplying temporary healthcare personnel to NHS Scotland through National Services Scotland.
• NHS Collaborative Procurement Partnership (LPP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMedecho was awarded a place on the NHS National Clinical Staffing Framework developed for the NHS by the NHS CPP. The CPP is a collaboration of four NHS procurement hubs: NHS Commercial Solutions, NHS North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative, East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub, and NHS London Procurement Partnership.
• Health Trust Europe (HTE)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFramework agreement holder for supplying clinical staffing to NHS organizations.
• NHS Shared Business ServicescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFramework agreement holder for medical locum staffing services to NHS trusts.
• Health and Social Care Northern IrelandcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFramework agreement holder for supplying temporary healthcare staff across Northern Ireland.
• AVOCA Managed ServicesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for managed services and staffing solutions.
• NHS Trusts (Individual)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorMedecho maintains preferred supplier relationships with individual NHS trusts. The company has over 186 NHS clients and holds hundreds of preferred supplier agreements with individual trusts. Through these framework agreements, they can supply to over 1000 NHS trusts in the UK.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• ID Medical: One of the largest UK healthcare recruitment agencies, placing doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals into NHS trusts. Closely comparable to Medecho in customer base (NHS), business model (placement fees), and framework-led go-to-market.
• Holt Doctors: UK-based locum doctor agency with similar NHS framework presence and direct placement model. Directly competes for the same NHS trust clients and locum doctor candidates as Medecho across grades and specialties.
• Athona: UK medical recruitment agency supplying locum and permanent doctors to NHS and private clients. Operates with a similar preferred-supplier / framework-based model and serves the same candidate pool.
• Medacs Healthcare: Global healthcare staffing provider with substantial UK locum doctor business. Directly comparable in placing doctors into NHS trusts under framework agreements, with a broader international footprint.
• Pulse: UK healthcare staffing brand within Acacium Group supplying locum doctors, nurses and allied health to NHS and private providers. Overlaps with Medecho in doctor placement and NHS framework access.
• Maxxima: UK healthcare recruitment agency placing doctors, nurses and allied health professionals into NHS trusts and private hospitals. Comparable in specialty coverage and NHS framework-driven GTM.
• Your World Healthcare: UK healthcare recruitment agency supplying locum doctors, nurses and allied health to NHS trusts. Direct competitor for NHS framework contracts and locum doctor placements.
• RIG Healthcare: UK-based locum doctor and healthcare professional recruiter operating within Acacium Group. Directly comparable NHS framework-led placement model and specialty coverage.

Broad incumbents

• NHS Professionals: NHS-owned in-house staff bank providing temporary clinical cover to trusts. Acts as the in-house alternative to agencies like Medecho and is the single most consequential competitive force in UK locum medical staffing.
• Hays: Global generalist recruitment firm with a significant UK healthcare division placing locum and permanent doctors and nurses. Overlaps with Medecho in NHS healthcare staffing but as one segment of a much broader portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/medecholocums
• Facebookfacebook.com/medecholocums
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/medecho-ltd

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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