Category: GP locums

Blogs and testimonials by NASGP members about working life as a GP locum

Covid-19 revaccination campaign scheduled for autumn/winter 2021

A revaccination campaign is 'likely to run later this year in autumn or winter', the Government says.

Record-breaking month on LocumDeck as bookings, GPs and practice stats soar

Dr Richard Fieldhouse said: "There's so much to celebrate with this news."

Three GPs a day quit as burnout and long Covid test tired workforce, NHS stats reveal

Professor Martin Marshall, chair of the RCGP, told the paper: “GPs and our teams want to provide safe, high-quality care to our patients and we can only do this with an adequate workforce. We desperately need more GPs.”

Welsh GP locums ‘cornered’ into locum banks by indemnity scheme

GP locums in Wales are being ‘cornered’ into joining a bank in order to access NHS indemnity, NASGP members have reported.

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LocumDeck adds off-locum work functionality for fees, non-clinical work and OOH

GPs can now add off-locum work to LocumDeck following an update.

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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.

GP locums need a place on integrated care boards too, NASGP argues

We have experience across dozens of practices and systems, creating unique skills and insights to local services, Dr Fieldhouse writes.

CCAS ‘300 GPs short’, ‘restarting recruitment’

Dr Richard Fieldhouse, NASGP chair, says: “Now that the second wave of Covid is well on its way, CCAS must change to either a proper employment contract with equitable pay, or allow GPs to be engaged by the service on the locums’ usual self-employed contractual basis.”

GPs are still hard at work – whether the Government knows it or not

Jaws dropped when an MP blithely remarked that GPs could safely ‘recommence’ face-to-face services in a ‘regular’ manner in Parliament the other day, Dr Richard Fieldhouse writes.

Q&A: Dr Chloe Evans on doing GP locum sessions outside your area

NASGP member Dr Chloe Evans splits her time between Oxford and Shetland. She explains how she works across two areas, and how NASGP membership supports her work

Almost 100 GP practices closed in 2019, data shows

Unplanned closures can cause the local provision of healthcare to implode, Dr Richard Fieldhouse warned.

GP locums report challenges accessing flu vaccinations

GP locums are eligible for free flu vaccinations at GP practices according to the new DES, but some have struggled to find clinics and book in for them.

Demand for appointments surges as practice managers plan winter locum cover

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.

Ten tips for starting out as a GP locum in 2020

Richard Fieldhouse lists the skills, products and memberships that will have a positive impact on a new GP locum's career this year

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New Pulse survey finds 67% of partners predict lower locum use over the summer

A Pulse survey conducted last June found that 67% of GP partners said they would be offering less locum work over the next few months

Working as a freelance GP locum

Everything any GP needs to know about stepping into the exciting world of working as a GP locum

The GP locum tutor

An anoymous survey of GP locums finds that the majority of respondents were very happy with their role and recommended a GP locum career to students thanks to flexibility, workload autonomy and patient care, and reduction of admin and bureaucracy. But GP locums also said they faced isolation, disrespect and difficulty accessing knowledge updates

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.

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.

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.

Meet the locum GP specialist

For years, we’ve been calling for recognition that locuming involves performing in a specialised environment requiring at least a mention in formal GP training. We brought that together in a one-day GP locum masterclass with the BMJ.

Systems to  improve continuity of care

Following on from her previous article Dis-continuity; putting care into context, Dr Sara Chambers explores the idea that sometimes continuity of care is deployed to paper over the cracks where 'continuity of management' and 'information' is lacking or even absent, and why the locum's perspective needs to be part of a future solution.