Category: Working as a GP

Advice on chambers, risk management and training for GP locums.

GPs can now auto-add NASGP membership to expenses

Bookkeeper also includes NASGP’s ‘session counter’ to automatically record the number of four-hour equivalent sessions to save time on GP locum indemnity paperwork.

IT systems

GP and practice testimonials go live on NASGP’s LocumDeck

GPs and practices can now leave reviews for one another on LocumDeck, NASGP’s independent locum booking platform.

Working as a GP

GP locum agency pushes £1,000 day rates for sessional work

NASGP ‘disheartened’ by Primary Care Medical Chambers locum rates.

GP locums

Salaried GPs should get 4.5% pay rise, Government says

Salaried GPs have been recommended a 4.5% pay rise but there is no indication that practices will be given the money to pay for it, Pulse reports.

Salaried GPs

New health minister denies ‘crisis’ in general practice

Just a major challenge, James Morris assures ‘future of GP’ inquiry.

Working as a GP

GP locum mental health event scheduled for September

Dr Helen Garr will join NASGP for a 1pm Q&A on Thursday 1 September when GPs can raise questions on burnout.

Q&A: Polly Morland, ‘A Fortunate Woman’

How the author shadowed a GP during Covid, and why the time is right to revisit John Berger's classic.

Continuity

GPs vote to keep industrial action on the table

Dr Richard Fieldhouse, NASGP chair, said: 'Any decision to take industrial action is never taken lightly, and if there is one profession that is good at weighing up evidence and risks, it is GPs.'

Working as a GP

‘Nearly 19,000’ GPs and registrars will walk, RCGP predicts

Its new Fit for the Future report (PDF) includes recommendations for general practice

Agilio Primary Care acquires My Locum Manager

Agilio has acquired the My Locum Manager platform, it reports – making NASGP’s LocumDeck as the only national independent GP-led locum booking platform on the market.

Working as a GP

New GPs face deportation letters, MPs warned

RCGP vice chair for professional development reported the news to MPs.

GP training

GP locums and good communication

Dr James Thorpe, Senior Medical Educator and Dr Rachel Birch, Medicolegal Consultant at Medical Protection, explain why good communication is essential in ensuring patients receive safe care from GP locums