...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.
