Stop Paying Premium Prices for Empty Shifts
Cut agency costs by up to 40% and fill nurse, aged care, and clinic shifts in minutes.
When a nurse, carer, or doctor cancels last minute, you’re the one left scrambling. Patients wait longer, your staff cop extra shifts, and compliance rules hang over your head.
The old ways (ringing around, rostering overtime, or calling agencies) are too slow, too expensive, and too risky.
Locumate gives healthcare leaders like you a smarter way to fill every shift fast, cut costs, and protect both patients and staff.
The Reality Healthcare Leaders Face
Unfilled shifts don’t just blow your budget. They risk patient safety, staff morale, and your ability to meet compliance requirements. Every gap in the roster pushes your best people closer to burnout and the exit door.
If you run a hospital, clinic, or aged care facility, you’ve seen it firsthand:
- Staff are calling in sick, which leaves no one to cover.
- Nurses are stretched so thin they’re forced into unsafe double shifts.
- Agency bills are piling up while beds are still closed because you couldn’t fill the roster.
The numbers prove what you already know:
- 62% of aged care workers say shifts go unfilled daily.
- By 2025, Australia will be short 85,000 nurses.
- NSW Health spent $320 million in one year on agencies and overtime and still left wards understaffed.
Offer shifts to your own staff first
Reward loyalty, reduce churn, and keep morale high.
Tap trusted past employees & contractors
People who know your systems and patients.
Expand instantly to verified healthcare professionals
In our marketplace – fill gaps fast with pre-checked staff.
Use agencies only as a last resort
All from the same dashboard.With Locumate, you stop reacting and start controlling. Shifts get filled in minutes, not hours. Compliance checks happen automatically. And your staff finally sees a system that works for them, not against them.
Why Healthcare Teams Switch to Locumate
- Save 30–40% compared to agency-first rostering.
- Cut fill times from hours to minutes with instant mobile alerts.
- Retain more staff by reducing overtime and burnout.
- Stay compliant with RN-on-site and care-minute requirements without scrambling.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Will this work with our current rostering and payroll system?
Yes. Locumate.ai integrates seamlessly with most major rostering and payroll systems. Our flexible API architecture allows data to flow between systems, reducing double handling and ensuring a smooth transition from shift creation to payment.
2. How fast can we be up and running?
Implementation is quick and straightforward. Most customers are fully operational within 6–8 weeks, depending on the level of integration and training required. Our onboarding team will guide you through setup, configuration, and go-live to ensure a smooth rollout.
3. What if our internal pool is too small?
No problem. Locumate.ai is designed to connect your internal pool with a broader ecosystem. If you can’t fill a shift internally, we have industry partners that can help build your talent pool and provide access to preferred workers, partner agencies, and the wider marketplace to ensure every shift is covered quickly and efficiently.
4. How do you handle compliance?
Locumate.ai provides the tools to help you manage and track compliance across your internal pool. During onboarding, workers can upload required documents such as licences, background checks, and certifications, all of which are stored in your centralised dashboard for easy access and monitoring. Automated alerts notify you of upcoming expiries, and the platform can integrate with third-party systems to verify credentials or sync compliance data, keeping your records complete and audit-ready at all times.
5. We’ve tried agencies and apps before. How is this different?
Agencies drain budgets and leave you waiting. Job boards are a lottery. Locumate combines all your staffing options in one place, automates the admin, and fills shifts fast, with compliance baked in.
Take Back Control of Your Rosters
Right now, you’re paying too much for too little. Your staff are exhausted, your budgets are under strain, and patients feel the impact.
Locumate changes that.
You cut costs, fill shifts faster, and stop firefighting.
… and see how many shifts you could fill this week.