Health and social care staff provider Healthcare Locums has received an approach ‘which may or may not lead to an offer’.

Health and social care staff provider Healthcare Locums has received an approach ‘which may or may not lead to an offer’.

The AIM-quoted company, a leader in its field, says it will make a further announcement ‘as soon as possible’. Steered by executive vice chairman and former nurse Kate Bleasdale, London-based Healthcare Locums has won support among shareholders since floating in 2005 with a respectable results record, increasing pre-tax profits 28.2 per cent last year to £17.7 million, on turnover nearly 5 per cent ahead at £172.1 million.