Supporting GP locums and salaried GPs
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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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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
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In the news
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...
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...AppraisalAid
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