Category: GP locums

Partners predict lower locum use over the summer, survey finds

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

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

Ensuring a locum GP is a self-employed contractor, not an employee

There are a number of important differences between employees and self-employed contractors

Life after VTS: my journey to life as a jobbing 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.

BMA publishes its locum practice agreement

NASGP were informed today via Pulse that the BMA have produced a new BMA locum practice agreement.

Wales Government in move that could restrict GP locums

Wales Government Health Minister Vaughan Gething has announced that Wales will be the first nation in the UK to introduce a locum register from April this year

Dis-continuity – putting 
care into context

Much is made of continuity of care, but little time is spent examining its weaknesses and exploring the alternatives. In the first of a two-part series, Dr Sara Chambers helps put continuity into context.

Should GP locums use WhatsApp to book sessions or jobs?

What you gain in convenience, you lose in the ability to control significant aspects of your practice

Little Donkey, with your precious load

Locuming; it takes skill, needs training

Over 2,000 doctors will have qualified as GPs in the last 12 months, each having spent in the region of two years working in at least one, possibly several, GP surgeries, but including training on how to be a GP locum?

Locum GP workforce numbers out for the count

NHS England email pilot open to GP locums

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.

Reassurance from BMA sought in aftermath NHS pension annualisation

Instant Book – does it sound too scary?

LocumDeck's Instant Book is the key to giving locums control of their work whilst at the same time giving incredible service to practices.

LocumDeck has gone paperless with NHS pension forms

GP locums entitled to NHS pension annualisation correction

Merry Christmas, As One

Lantum takes control of Locum Organiser

October edition of The Sessional GP out now