Category: Career & wellbeing

‘We’ve seen almost an 100% increase’: the surge at doctors’ support services in 2020

Dr Helen Garr, a GP and the clinical lead at NHS Practitioner Health, explains the importance of preventing burnout amongst GP locums in 2021.

How to make the most of a career coach

Uncertain work and finances can create stress, writers Dr Caroline Walker, but 2020 might be a fertile year for GP locums to reassess your portfolio career – or even make decisions about a salaried role – with a coach.

‘Decision latitude’ is just one sign of burnout for GP locums to pick up on this winter

As a second lockdown kicks in, Dr Adam Staten (co-author with Dr Euan Lawson of GP Wellbeing) explains the reasons why GP locums – even those locked out of sessional work – are burning out.

Doctors and nurses need ‘psychological PPE’, says Prof Clare Gerada

NASGP fully supports Dame Prof Gerada’s calls for better support at work, and confidential services for clinicians to prevent mental ill health. 

GP locums eligible for free seasonal flu jab from their own GP this year

GP locums are eligible for free flu jabs at GP practices according to the new DES in 2020.

Life after VTS: my journey to life as a GP locum

Like many highly skilled professions, a career in general practice can be a journey with obstacles to overcome, barriers to navigate and choices to make. NASGP member Tina Sumner describes how she came to be working as a GP locum and how NASGP has helped her in that journey.

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 rumination.

Making stress your friend

With ever mounting workload, increasing patient complexity and rising patient expectations and complaints, work is becoming increasingly stressful in the NHS.

Staying safe: easy steps to avert a personal crisis

Many of us will have experienced a time of emotional crisis. It could follow a break-up of a relationship, a bereavement, a traumatic event, financial worries or an adjustment to a big change.

Get strong, stay strong

Evidence suggests that there are strong associations in middle and older age between poor balance, poor strength or poor physical function and mortality, and that lower strength in late adolescence and early adulthood link with increased vascular risk in later life.

Wounded healers; what makes GPs so vulnerable to mental ill-health?

Doctors experience more mental ill-health and addiction than other professional groups, and there are higher rates of suicide in doctors than other professionals, especially in young women, who are two to four times more likely to kill themselves than other women.

Are you another victim of the attention economy?

Gauging stress before the crash

The war on GP workload

The case for 
GP locum chambers

There are many benefits to being part of a chambers if you are a GP locum, but what can you do if there is no chambers in your local area? Dr Richard Fieldhouse provides some advice.

Setting seismic career goals

Three good things

Keep on spinning – the journey to wellbeing

How to set SMART career goals

Start collecting evidence for NHS GP appraisal

So much of what we do can count towards our GP NHS appraisal, but how do we capture it all? This is a particular problem area for GP locums.

Getting a good nights sleep

Why set career goals?

Could physical activity be
 our miracle cure?

Setting career goals as a sessional GP