Network Locum

Founded in 2012 and based in London, UK, Lantum is a workforce management platform that makes it easier for healthcare providers to mobilise their workforce, and for clinicians to work more flexibly. The company is founded by CEO Melissa Moris, Ishani Patel and CCO William Hoyer Millar. Their investors include Piton Capital, BGF Ventures, Samos and Beringea. Lantum has raised a total of $13.

8M in funding over 4 rounds funded by 8 investors. Cedars-Sinai Accelerator and Piton Capital are the most recent investors. Lantum acquired RLocums in August, 2016. The company started as Network Locum in 2012.

While working as part of the NHS London Transformation team, Lantum CEO Melissa Morris saw firsthand how inefficiencies in staffing were drastically affecting the quality of care available to patients in the Primary Care system. The company uses technology to break down the barriers between practice managers who need to fill vacant sessions and GPs looking for a more flexible way of working, enabling increase in quality of care available to patients. Lantum is an end to end staffing platform enabling healthcare organisations to operate. Clinics use Lantum to manage their freelance physicians and also to find new ones via a marketplace of high quality vetted physicians.

Lantum allows clinics to perform compliance checks on physicians as well as rate them and pay them fast. Lantum alsoprovides a toolkit for freelance physicians enabling them to manage their working lives and do their taxes. The company's platform saves time on paperwork, keeps track of all payments and connects general practitioners with practice managers, enabling healthcare organizations to fill their shifts and professionals to fill their diaries, without the need for agencies. Healthcare professionals use Lantum to make booking shift work easier.