Category: Working as a GP

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

GP funding deserves ‘fundamental strategic shift’, Darzi review finds

Since then, RCGP chair Dr Kamila Hawthorne has called for emergency GP funding in the autumn budget.

Working as a GP

RCGP: Half of soon-to-qualify GP registrars ‘still looking for work’

Registrars struggling to find a role reported applied for an average 13 roles each.

GP training

GPs and the new Cause of Death certification forms

Dr Emma Davies, medicolegal consultant at Medical Protection, breaks down the new death certification reforms and what they mean for GP locums

Sessional GPs may bear the brunt of ‘workload dump’, doctors warn

GPs have criticised a Local Medical Committee after it published a list of tasks for members to decline.

Working as a GP

Hours per GP session up while session number falls, new BJGP study shows

The increase in the numbers of hours worked per session over the last decade may lead to a relative decline in GPs’ hourly salary, authors warned.

Working as a GP

Patient follow-up request form for GP locums – download

Try using this form to flag up to reception when a patient really needs review.

QIA – Practice prescribing system proforma

This template helps practices explain the steps in their prescribing systems so that visiting GPs can make informed, safe prescribing decisions.

Risk management

Sessional GPs working an average of ‘a day a week’ less than 2022

Some 84% of GPs responding wanted to work more sessions, a new BMA survey on the sessional GP workforce crisis has revealed.

Working as a GP

GPs to be added to ARRS scheme amidst calls for core funding

GPs and practice managers warned that ARRS funding at most PCNs has already been spent, is short-term, and that sessional GPs should be paid through core funding.

Five ways to keep locuming well during quiet periods of work

Our LocumDeck forums and closed Facebook group have also fielded concerns from GPs, particularly those new to locuming, about how to weather this quiet period for work. Our quick five-step guide has you covered.

Working as a GP

Standardised Practice Information Portal

As of July 2024, NASGP’s Spip resource has been archived. In the event that we update and restore Spip, we will update the website with new information.

How to supervise physician associates: tips for GP locums

Dr Heidi Mounsey, medicolegal consultant at Medical Protection, provides some helpful advice for GP locums to consider as they supervise or manage physician associates

Health secretary: Labour ‘committed to reversing’ GP funding cuts

Streeting added that improving continuity was another priority for the new Government.

Working as a GP

Incoming Labour government to ‘reform primary care appointments’

Other commitments include: training ‘thousands’ more GPs, a ‘guarantee’ for face-to-face and incentivising a named-GP-style scheme.

Working as a GP

Podcast: GP locuming in New Zealand with Dr Jennie Ferrie

In this episode, Dr Ferrie shares her journey from the UK to New Zealand, detailing the nuances of locuming as a GP in rural areas, the challenges of adapting to a different healthcare system, and the lifestyle benefits of living in New Zealand.

Long-term GP vacancies still running at 22 per cent, new survey finds

Yet six in 10 GPs found it ‘moderately difficult’ or ‘very difficult’ to find an appropriate vacancy to apply for in the past year.

Working as a GP

GP locum in Wiltshire heckles Rishi Sunak over ‘disintegrating’ NHS

Dr Jane Lees-Millais warned the PM that the NHS is ‘disintegrating’.

GP locums

Video: Dr Varun Anand – adult obesity and weight management

Dr Varun Anand gives a webinar on adult obesity and weight management in general practice.

The Sessional GP Magazine June 2024

The June issue of the newly-redesigned Sessional GP Magazine has advice from MPS on the new death certificates and from specialist independent financial advisors on getting insurance when you work as a GP locum. NASGP member Dr Louise Hudman has summarised the latest Nice advice on ovarian cancer, and we've also covered the latest news that affects sessional GPs.

GPs see year on year growth on LocumDeck amid scarcity concerns

GPs working in NASGP’s seven regional ICB partnerships have worked 15% more sessions year on year, according to original LocumDeck data.

GP locums

GPs to track admin workload with new free BMA tool, ‘GP Diary’

BMA members can add contracted hours and sessions, log workload and create reports to push back on admin and clinical overload ahead of industrial action.

Breaking bad news to patients: a sessional GP’s guide

Dr Sabira Hughes and Dr Priyanka Saigal, Medicolegal Consultants at Medical Protection, describe situations when GP locums might be required to break bad news, why it is important to be good at breaking bad news, the consequences of getting it right or wrong, and frameworks GP locums can use to break bad news.