UK-based clinical workforce platform Tern Group has raised $24 million (£17.7 million) in a Series A funding round led by Notion Capital. The round also saw participation from RTP Global, LocalGlobe, EQ2 Ventures, Leo Capital, Presight and several individual investors. With this latest investment, the company’s total funding has reached $33 million, including earlier seed rounds.
Founded two years ago by Avinav Nigam and Krishna Ramkumar, Tern provides an end-to-end recruitment solution for the healthcare sector. The platform connects qualified clinicians from countries with talent surpluses, such as India, to healthcare providers in regions with critical staffing shortages. Tern is already working with employers across the UK, Germany, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Japan and the United States.
More than 650,000 professionals from 13 countries have signed up to the platform, and the company has partnered with over 100 hospitals and care groups. Alongside recruitment, Tern also supports candidates with visas, immigration, relocation, finance, transport and housing.
The new funding will help Tern expand its operations in the UK by strengthening partnerships with NHS Trusts and care groups. It also plans to accelerate the development of a Clinical AI Workforce platform that will focus on compliance automation, workforce planning and system integrations.
The shortage of clinical staff remains one of the biggest challenges for healthcare systems worldwide. In the UK, the NHS continues to rely heavily on international recruitment and agency workers. The government’s 10 Year Health Plan includes ambitions to eliminate agency staffing by the end of this Parliament and to reduce international recruitment to below 10 percent by 2035. At present, international recruitment accounts for 34 percent of new NHS hires.
Despite these targets, demand for global healthcare talent remains high and competition for skilled staff is expected to continue. This presents ongoing opportunities for Tern to play a key role in addressing workforce gaps across international healthcare markets.
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