The NASGP is the only independent lobbying and information
service for
Sessional GPs - locums, salaried and retainer GPs.
Date
End
Survey
Respondents
Outcome
18/2/11
Sessional
GPs and Commissioning
223
22/1/10
9/2/10
PCTs rejecting locum superannuation forms
94
6/6/09
14/6/09
Concerns relating to revalidation
178
Here's the results...
NASGP's survey of member's opinions
Locum GPs
Salaried and 'other' GPs
...and the outcome from Stephanie's meeting with the RCGP
after presenting the results...
Stephanie Franz's meeting with the RCGP
9/5/09
1/6/09
Sessions per year
256
55% (n=118) of locums work in more than 5 practices a
year, and 25% in more than 10. The most popular number of sessions
worked in an average week was 5 to 6 sessions (31%, n=67).
Summary of responses from locum GPs
Thinly spread locums a challenge to bread and butter
revalidation evidence
NB we're currently sampling a group of locums to see if
there's a reporting error between guessing number of sessions and actual
sessions worked;
provisional results suggest half of underestimated the number of
sessions by a factor of more than 2...
1/5/09
8/5/09
Flu Pandemic
522
80% of locums and 43%
of Salaried GPs had not received an email from their PCT about the flu
pandemic.
