Category: Locum chambers

GPs to get notified when payment is sent

GP locums in NASGP’s Locum Chambers will now be notified if a practice marks a payment as sent.

New research finds peer review can improve GP consultations

Dr Richard Fieldhouse, chair of NASGP, said: 'It is always good to see more evidence for ways for groups of GPs to support each other in making their work safer and more efficient.'

GPs in North London invited to join new locum chambers for freelance support at work

NASGP has opened applications for a new GP locum chambers for GPs in Barnet, Haringey and Enfield.

Manchester GPs and practice managers sound the alarm on Northern NHS workforce crisis

Join our Manchester chambers today via the LocumDeck homepage.

Free membership offer launches for GPs in Surrey

The Frimley scheme is the fourth of four local partnership schemes that NASGP runs in Essex, Devon and the Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire areas. 

Free Chambers scheme opens in Essex for GP locums following new partnership with CCG

North East Essex chambers will be open to NASGP members, including GPs on a free trial, for several months this summer.

How to set up a locum chambers

An experienced Stoke GP, Dr Ojha explains how to start a new NASGP Locum Chambers in an area without one.

Q&A: What is a chambers meeting?

NASGP chair Dr Richard Fieldhouse explains how chambers meetings work, where GPs meet, how long they talk for, and why discussing complaints is so important

NASGP adds new dates to GP locum webinar series

The NASGP has added new events for GP locums looking to join or start new NASGP Locum Chambers this winter. 

Q&A: Dr Chloe Evans on locuming on Shetland

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

NASGP launches new free online chamber events series

Webinars for GP locums across the UK have helped them find out more about the NASGP Locum Chambers model.

Q&A: What is a chambers? 

NASGP’s Locum Chambers model connects GP locums, so having a flexible career no longer means working in isolation.

Day in the life of a Locum Chambers manager

Ali Lewis, NASGP’s longstanding Locum Chambers Manager, told us about a day in the life behind the scenes: how long it takes to join a Chambers, how managers get more practices on board, and how Instant Book is keeping locums busy during remote working

Browse our NASGP Locum Chambers directory

NASGP Locum Chambers is ideal for GP locums who don’t want to go it alone. Each local NASGP Locum Chambers is a local team of up to 15 GP locums who meet up regularly. It is a collaborative group who share a dedicated manager and clinical director while retaining independence.

How can I find out more about NASGP Locum Chambers?

Whether you’re a GP locum, GP practice or primary care organisation, our NASGP Locum Chambers page gives you plenty of useful information. If you need to know more, please email us at info@nasgp.org.uk.

How does invoicing work in Chambers?

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.

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.

NASGP GP locum chambers survey 2016

Peninsular Medical Chambers in Cornwall

£100k salaries symptomatic, not causal

GP locum chambers | A modern solution for tomorrow’s GP workforce (NHS England – Midland and East)

Chambers NASGP summary

There has to be an alternative

For many, early retirement seems the only escape from the hamster-wheel of endless effort. And now the Government threatens not only to add out of hours back to the workload of individual practices, but also longer hours and night-time responsibility too.