Category: Skills

Essential skills training for GP locums and salaried GPs

GP shortage leaves island without a surgery

Solutions like NASGP's Remote Digital Chambers are much-needed for rural and remote practices.

Starting out as a GP locum: how to choose which practices to work at in your area

What makes a good GP practice for locum work?

Starting out as a GP trainer

Whether you have a nascent interest in teaching or years of NHS experience, now really is a golden time to polish up skills and invigorate your portfolio.

How GP locums handle ‘difficult’ consultations

Dr Leila Saeed has been a GP locum and a salaried GP in different parts of the UK and spends three days a week as a clinical educator

Skills

Remote working: the blurred line between triage and consultation

It is imperative that triage and consultation are recognised as unique, and different, skills by partners and professional bodies

GP locum skills and how to achieve them – free PDF download

As a specialist area of GP practice, working as a GP locum requires its own set of skills. The NASGP has developed a curriculum of training to equip GP locums and enable you to work safely and well.

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?