Category: Working as a GP

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

Advice to my younger self starting out as a GP locum – 10 years on

Don't sweat the ‘on the job’ small stuff, but focus on reach, reputation, and responsiveness. Invest time getting the admin of locuming right, writes Dr Sieber

Salaried GPs must pursue 4% payrise, backdated to April, experts say

Salaried GPs are due a 4% payrise, backdated to April 2025, experts at the British Medical Association have said.

Salaried GPs

Four possible changes to salaried and locum GP work: 2026/7 contract

New proposals do indeed sound like they will support the workforce and employment, for sessional GPs at all stages in their career, writes Dr Clare Sieber

Working as a GP

What if my patient is someone I know? Sessional GP advice on GMC guidance

Providing a definition for a ‘close personal relationship’ can sometimes be difficult and needs to be considered, and justified, based on the individual circumstances.

Risk management

DDRB pay uplift for salaried GPs: what does the future hold for 2026?

Are salaried GPs entitled to annual DDRB uplifts, why don't all salaried GPs receive the expected DDRB payrise, and how could GPs solve this issue? Dr Clare Sieber explains.

Salaried GPs

How the 10 Year Health Plan might affect sessional GPs

Dr Clare Sieber on the role for sessional and portfolio GPs in the Government's new plans for beefing up prevention, opening NHCs and urgent care reform.

Working as a GP

First impressions: how to start out as a GP locum at a new practice

How to cope with locked rooms, missing laptops and phones and slow initialising.

GP locums

Video: Dr Sarah Jacques on a portfolio GP career after burnout

Portfolio GP and Doctors' Association Uk spokesperson Dr Sarah Jacques shares her journey from suicidal thoughts in burnout to building a sustainable, balanced portfolio GP career.

How to optimise your LocumDeck profile

To help you get that first booking and become a Pioneer GP, you need to build trust and show professionalism. Here is your guide to making it happen.

Making Tax Digital for sessional GPs: video and slides, Anna Tyler

Watch this webinar for the clear, calm, and practical guide you need to prepare your professional practice for April 2026.

2026 ‘Lab’ events to support GP locums with practical, peer-led solutions

Opportunities will bring members together to break down the problems that are hardest to tackle on their own.

How to build a long-term locum relationship with a GP practice

Tips to start out on a 10-year plan of your own to build a mutually beneficial relationship from portfolio GP Dr Clare Sieber.

How online access changes affect sessional GPs: GP contract 2025/6

Whatever your contractual status, the change – less than two months old – has already filtered down to grassroots GPs, writes Dr Sieber

Dr Clare Sieber joins NASGP as Sessional GP Workforce Advocate

Dr Richard Fieldhouse said: 'Clare brings unparalleled insight. Her experience and passion for flexibility, being so crucial for system stability, will be invaluable.'

Working as a GP

Autumn Budget 2025: What sessional GPs need to know

Although it can't be guaranteed what exactly is printed on the paper that sits in the famous crimson dispatch box, it is guaranteed that the contents will have a significant impact on sessional GPs of all ages and contractual status, writes Dr Clare Sieber

More than half of GP practices struggling after contract changes

In a survey of over 1300 practices, 42% said they had reduced face-to-face appointments to patients.

IT systems

NASGP introduces complimentary Instant Book fees scheme

NASGP is excited to introduce a new complimentary Instant Book fees scheme, designed to reward NASGP members who help grow their local locum community.

Professional strength often starts with vulnerability: Locum Labs

Members told NASGP that what unsettles them most isn’t the clinical work itself, but what surrounds it. To explore these realities, NASGP members met in our first Locum Lab, a peer-led discussion designed to surface practical, real-world responses to shared challenges.

GP locums

Salaried GPs will not receive more than 2.5% pay rise in 2026, Gov warns

News provoked GP outcry over ‘real terms pay cut’.

Salaried GPs

NASGP members can now access new availability reminder feature

The new feature has been co-designed with NASGP’s membership support manager in order to improve the user experience for GPs.

GP locums

Salaried GPs call for mandatory pay rises to be ringfenced in GP contract

GPs will call for the General Practitioners’ Committee for England (GPCE) to negotiate for a funding stream ‘that directly funds an annual pay uplift for salaried GPs in line with DDRB recommendation’.