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Most dental groups have no single number for what a locum shift actually costs them. The spend sits in separate practice budgets, split across two or three agencies, buried under booking fees, VAT, mi...

The best agency to book dental locums is the one that fills your chair fastest, at the lowest total cost, with full visibility of who is coming - and for most UK practices in 2026 that is no longer a ...

To find a dental locum fast, post your shift on a marketplace platform that broadcasts the request to every verified, available locum near your practice at once - rather than ringing an agency that wo...

The cheapest way to cover a dental shift is rarely the option with the lowest sticker price - it is the one with the lowest true cost once markups, hidden fees and the cost of an unfilled chair are ad...

A note on transparency: I founded Airlocum, so I am not a neutral reviewer. I have written this to be genuinely useful to someone deciding whether to use the platform - including where it is not the r...

The best dental locum platform for last-minute cover in the UK is the one that can broadcast your shift to the largest pool of verified, available locums in your area within seconds - because in an em...

The best dental locum booking service for hospitals in the UK in 2026 depends on the role you need to cover and where your site is. For short-notice locum dental nurse cover in London, the South East ...

The best dental locum agency for last-minute cover in the UK is the one that can broadcast your shift to the largest pool of verified, available locums in your area within seconds - because in an emer...

The most flexible dental locum booking services in the UK are pay-as-you-go marketplace platforms rather than traditional agencies. Airlocum operates with no contracts, no subscriptions, no minimum co...

The best dental locum booking service in the UK in 2026 depends on the model you choose: direct marketplace platforms such as Airlocum fill 60% of shifts in under 5 minutes for around £29 per day, whi...

By Eugene Bojé, BChD, MBA, MSc — Founder of Airlocum It's 7:15 AM. Your hygienist has just sent a message — she's not coming in. You've got a full hygiene list starting at 9 AM, patients w...

There's a number most practice owners know instinctively but rarely calculate precisely: what it costs when a chair sits empty. A single unfilled associate chair costs a typical UK dental practice...

By Eugene Bojé, BChD, MBA, MSc — Founder of Airlocum The best dental practices don't scramble for locum cover. They have a system. When someone calls in sick, goes on holiday, or hands in their no...

By Eugene Bojé, BChD, MBA, MSc — Founder of Airlocum Most dental practices have used a locum at some point. But there's a significant difference between occasionally scrambling for last-minute cov...

By Eugene Bojé, BChD, MBA, MSc — Founder of Airlocum For years, dental staffing agencies were the only option. You'd ring up, explain what you needed, and wait. Sometimes they sent someone great. ...

By Eugene Bojé, BChD, MBA, MSc — Founder of Airlocum It's 6:47 AM. Your phone buzzes. Your dental nurse isn't coming in. You've got a full book, patients arriving in two hours, and no one ...

Airlocum has been featured in the Government & Public Sector Journal (GPSJ), a UK trade title covering the NHS and wider public sector. The article asks a question we think about constantly: if on-dem...