Category: Covid-19

Information on jabs and boosters to help you navigate working as a GP locum during this pandemic.

NASGP Covid-19 risk stratification tool

If you’ve made yourself available to see face-to-face patients on LocumDeck at a practice you’ve not worked at yet during Covid, use this form to generate a score for your biological risk.

Covid-19

GP locums ‘sucked up’ by private health amidst CCAS problems

NASGP chair Dr Richard Fieldhouse told GPonline that private firms had had better access to GP locums during the pandemic after many locums had sessions cancelled at short notice.

Covid-19

GP practices can order PPE from the Government, DH claims

The NASGP recommends that all GP locums include in their terms a specific requirement to receive PPE from the practice they work in. GP locums should not be asked to source or supply their own PPE

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Demand surges as practice managers plan winter GP locums

At the end of August 3.9 million appointments were recorded for England in one week. In the first week of September this leapt to 5.2 million.

GP locums ‘must not be locked out again’ in a second lockdown: NASGP

Dr Richard Fieldhouse said: “I sincerely hope that those involved in implementing the first lockdown have learnt lessons in time for this second one."

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NASGP members expose CCAS pay problems

GP locums from NASGP’s CCAS support group talked to Pulse to expose problems with the service

GP locums eligible for flu jab from own GP

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

Preparing for a  Covid-19 winter

Dr Rachel Birch, medicolegal consultant at MPS, provides advice and practical tips for locum GPs

Remote working: the blurred line between triage and consultation

It is imperative that triage and consultation are recognised as unique, and different, skills by partners and professional bodies

NASGP’s legal advice on NHS Pension ‘Death in Service’ benefits

Thanks to generous donations from NASGP members, we commissioned advice from specialist employment lawyer Ray Levy and barrister Mary O’Rourke QC on ‘Continual Service Contracts' and death in service benefits during Covid-19

Locum Toolkit | Key Covid-19 management options

Download this 75-page document put together by Adam Abbs and colleagues for strategies toensure a safe and effective consultation via telephone or video.