The NASGP is the independent national membership organisation for sessional GPs
"...it's wonderful that GP locums now have a voice and are seen as a vital part of the medical workforce."
We recognise the importance of every GP in general practice.
Our aim is to eliminate professional isolation and enforced underperformance.
So we created Practeus - the home for sessional GPs.
Practeus includes LocumDeck; nails your invoicing, pension forms and bookings.
Practeus also includes Spip; the home of practice-specific information, built for locums and all other practice staff.
Join us now for support, and to become part of Practeus.
"...I have been a member of the NASGP for 18 months and find the support and advice invaluable..."
"I regret not having joined earlier!!!"
Coming soon - flexible Locum Chambers in and around Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West. Developed in association with NASGP and powered by LocumDeck. Read more.
Welcome to the NASGP
Supporting sessional GPs to improve patient care
Founded in 1997, the NASGP is run by a group of GP locums on the basis that all patients have a right to receive the same high standards of care from all GPs. So all GPs need to be equally recognised and enabled to deliver the same level of care at every GP encounter.
This core belief was enshrined in the first line of our Code of Good Practice, and it shapes all the work the NASGP has done since, from initiating the campaign to extend NHS pensions to GP locums, developing the concept of GP locum chambers, to lobbying to raise the recognition and professional status of GPs who work as locums.
We specialise in taking our grassroots experience as sessional GPs, and that of our members, and turning this into positive ideas, resources, leadership and practical tools to support our members to engage well with practices, and have happy, long careers as GPs taking our rightful place as the valuable part of the GP workforce we truly are.
As part of NASGP’s commitment to fostering good working relationships between practices and GP locums, we are also delighted to welcome practices as NASGP members too.
The online portal for general practice
Connecting GP locums with all the things we need to keep in the loop and thrive as GPs: colleagues, information and practices. It's led by the NASGP and shared with practices to help us all find each other and work well together.
It comes free with NASGP membership, and gives you access to NASGP's Standardised Practice Information Portal (Spip) and LocumDeck.
You can access Practeus when you sign in to the NASGP website, or from anywhere where you see the Practeus logo.
Locuming perfected
LocumDeck facilitates the direct interaction between GP locums and practices, reducing the work of managing bookings, and making administrative hassles melt away. At full power, there's even the option of Instant Book.
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“Love LocumDeck. Invoice sent for this month. Super quick and easy once set-up. Form all calculated – lovely!”
[NASGP’s LocumDeck] is really less than a minute to invoice and do the pension forms, with everything calculated perfectly.
I wanted to share with the group how AMAZINGLY GOOD NASGP LocumDeck is!! It is so good and so intuitive that I am lost for words and utterly filled with glee.
LocumDeck really is brilliant – I’ve always relied on my own system – never put my faith in any other system – but was genuinely buzzing when I used it yesterday – how easy it was to use and how many other things it does. It will significantly change and improve my invoicing and end of the month!
“I started working as a locum GP in January this year and NASGP have been invaluable in helping to co-ordinate my bookings and organise all the administrative aspects of sessional work which can be complex and time consuming. Their client support is outstanding and they have always resolved any queries promptly and personally. They care about the service they provide and I would not hesitate to recommend them to any sessional GPs who want to minimise time spent on administration and focus on providing patients with high quality care.”
Standardised Practice Information Portal (Spip)
GP locums and practices can all be part of creating and sharing consulting room level information
Where LocumDeck helps get GP locums into practice, Spip welcomes and inducts them into practice’s information ecosystem.
Spip is a secure, online platform where practices can centrally store, update and then display all of their highly localised, practice-specific information to their staff and GPs at the point of need, equipping them to manage patients safely and efficiently.
Spip includes LocumPack, pulling together Spip’s 30 most-asked questions by GP locums so that each practice has its own essential locum induction information.
On our blog
Breaking the rumination trap
Have you ever been stuck in a swirl of negative thoughts, rehashing things that you should or shouldn’t have said or done? Most of us will recognise this circular self-battering, a process known as ...
e-learning – Fever in under 5s
This guideline has been updated in Nov 19. It was first published in 2007, then updated in 2013, when I first did this blog. The main update this year is around Kawasaki disease. It used to be that Ka...
e-learning | Rivaroxaban for preventing atherothrombotic events
This is a new guideline from NICE advising that rivaroxaban plus aspirin can be used in the prevention of atherothrombotic events, under certain circumstances. It was published in Oct 19. This is quit...
Podcast | Social prescribing – I’ve seen the future of general practice…
A partner in a North London practice was feeling burned out. The crushing target-chasing workload was no longer offset by the reward of helping patients. The BNF had no remedy for the distresses of mo...
Off duty dilemmas
As doctors, we may sometimes feel that we are never off duty. Even when we are not at work, those close to us may seek our advice on medical matters, or even request for emergency medical assistance. ...
e-learning | Hypertension in adults
This is an updated guideline from NICE on managing hypertension in adults. It was published in Aug 2019. So what is new? The meat and bones of management is the same. There are a few small differences...
Can someone who is paid through their own limited company be a worker or employee?
An Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) agrees that out of hours GP paid through her own company was a worker. Professionals and consultants may at times provide their services through an intermediary, s...
e-learning | Diagnosis and management of pneumonia
NICE first published guidance on pneumonia in 2014, and updated 2019. At that time there was a push to use the CRB65 score in general practice and also CRP as an aid to deciding on when to use antibio...
Podcast | October 2019 magazine out now
In our 109th edition, Alacoque describes a legal case where a locum's tax status was different to their legal status, Rachel's being a Good Samaritan, Judith's been looking at therapeutic spaces, Loui...
The Sessional GP Magazine
'The Sessional GP' is the only digital magazine exclusively for sessional GPs, and is published online every 8 weeks (February, April, June, August, October and December). Financial, accountancy and careers advice, clinical updates, risk management, local news, and lots more.
In the news
Locum’s widower loses second death-in-service appeal
A High Court appeals judge has rejected an appeal from Carl Sanderson, widower of GP locum Dr Helen Sanderson, that the NHS Pension scheme should have paid out death-in-service benefits. Helen was wor...
Ooh! BMA clarifies nifty way to avoid annualisation
If your sole modus operandi as a GP is as a locum, and are contributing to the NHS pension scheme, it's pretty much guaranteed that you'll be contributing on the top pension tier. But the BMA have com...
Locum’s employment status deemed ‘worker’ after Employment Appeal Tribunal
An Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled that a GP locum, working through their own limited company for an out-of-hours organisation Community Based Care Health CBCH, is in fact classified as a '...