NHS Education South Central is using IT solutions and services specialist Hicom Technology to complete its first round of junior doctor applications.

Hicom’s online recruitment and applicant tracking system I:CAMS was deployed across 11 of the 13 recruiting Deaneries aiming to reduce duplication and administration, and to improve the speed of the recruitment process.

Sheeba Kidd, information officer for Oxford Deanery, says: “Prior to I:CAMS, we had recruited via the mandatory MTAS recruitment system, which having been deemed unsatisfactory nationally meant we had reverted back to a paper-based application process in subsequent years. I:CAMS is our first experience of a local online recruitment system and the immediate contrast to our previous paper-based application system is stark. The entire process – from putting an advert live to processing the offer letter to the successful candidate – is so much more efficient.”