TERN Group, the UK-headquartered clinical AI workforce platform used to source, secure and relocate top healthcare talent, today announces that it has raised £18m Series A funding, led by Notion Capital, with RTP Global, LocalGlobe, EQ2 Ventures, Leo Capita, Presight Capital, Mato Peric MPGI, Tom Stafford (Cofounder of DST Global), along with former NHS England chair, and CEO of AXA Healthcare. This brings TERN Group’s total funding to over £24m, after an oversubscribed Seed round last year.
The World Health Organisation predicts that the global healthcare industry will face an 18m worker shortfall by 2030. The result is hospitals and care providers are stretched thin, forced to rely on expensive locums that drain budgets without solving the long-term gap, with the UK NHS alone spending over £10bn on locums per annum. Healthcare systems everywhere are caught in the same cycle: demand from the industry is rising, but there is no accessible pipeline of qualified healthcare professionals. On top of that, international recruitment is slow and bureaucratic.
TERN Group tackles these problems at scale, combining AI-driven workflows with human-led support for training, relocation, and settlement. The company has built the world’s first Clinical AI Workforce Platform, a system that is built by clinicals, HR Experts & AI technologists, which integrates sourcing, credentialing, training, and onboarding into an enterprise-ready solution.
The platform delivers 60% faster time-to-hire (cutting months-long processes to weeks); 3x cost savings compared to locum-heavy models; 15–20% productivity gains by aligning talent supply with clinical demand; a far superior candidate experience, driving 96% retention; and the AI-workflows can be easily integrated into a single regulatory-compliant enterprise platform.
TERN Group already has over 100+ global healthcare clients, including 18 UK NHS trusts (including two of the five leading trusts in the country). The company has expanded from one to six core markets this past year, and is now active in Germany, UK, UAE, KSA, Japan and USA. More than 650,000 professionals from 13 countries have signed up to access transparent information, upskilling opportunities, and direct roles with reputable employers.
With the new funding, TERN Group will expand its UK, Germany and GCC operations, deepen partnerships with NHS Trusts and care groups, and accelerate development of its Clinical AI Workforce platform, including compliance automation, workforce planning, and system integrations. The company will also continue investing in international talent preparation - clinically, linguistically, and culturally, ensuring professionals not only arrive ready, but stay long term.
