LocumDeck for Locums
Your supportive locum work management platform
LocumDeck is packed with powerful features that empower GP locums to work on your terms. Display your availability and sessions, and connect directly with practices ready to book you.
LocumDeck is included with NASGP membership – join today for access to supportive tools, helpful resources, and guidance tailored for GP locums
Discover more LocumDeck features below.
Set-Up Wizard
Our easy-to-use Setup Wizard will walk you through each step of creating your locum sessions, setting your rates, and establishing terms that work for you.
- Highlight your personality, experience, and areas of expertise.
- Add references from peers and past GP roles.
- Create your locum sessions, terms and rates for practices to see and book.
Our platform is built by locums for locums, so we’ve thought of everything you’ll need to highlight your skills and attract bookings from practices.
The Dashboard
Your dashboard is your central hub, giving you quick access to all the tools and resources you need.
- Check your calendar, update your locum availability, manage your bookings, and handle invoicing and pension payments – all in one place.
- Access to our resource section with guides on key topics for locums, along with webinars and the latest news, so you’re always up to date.
- To help you make the most of your LocumDeck experience, our platform is packed with user guides and handy tips designed to support you every step of the way.
Availability Calendar
The availability calendar lets you set and display your locum availability, making it easy for practices to see when you’re open for bookings and what types of sessions you offer.
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- Practices can view your available times and book you directly based on their needs.
- Practices can review your credentials, giving them confidence in your qualifications.
- Clear notification system enabling you and the practice to communicate about any upcoming bookings.
- Practices can view your available times and book you directly based on their needs.
Want to try Instant Book? A faster, smarter way to get booked, set your availability, and practices can book you instantly with no admin hassle. Find out more
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Invoicing and Pensions
Our invoicing and pension section takes the hassle out of admin, making life easier for you as a locum.
- LocumDeck supports e-signatures, so all Form A and Form B paperwork can be completed digitally.
- Autogenerates your locum Form B and Form A.
- Locum Form B is stamped with the UPR, and all e-signed Form As are combined into a single file for seamless submission.
Our platform is built by locums for locums, so we’ve thought of everything you’ll need to highlight your skills and attract bookings from practices.
“Date Worked” Pension Summary
This screen gives you a clear, date-based view of your pensionable work, helping you track your employee contribution tier and pensionable service days throughout the year.
Use it to:
- Check your pension contributions and service days
- Understand your annualisation position
- Quickly access Forms A and B for each session
- Helpful tooltips and monthly filters make it easy to stay on top of your NHS pension status.
Get booked smarter and faster with Instant Book
Instant Book takes the stress out of booking by confirming sessions automatically, so you can focus on patient care instead of admin.
No back-and-forth messages, no waiting around. Just add your availability and let practices book you directly for the work you want, entirely on your schedule. It’s fast, seamless, saves you time, and gives you an edge in securing the bookings you prefer, precisely when and how you want them.
Join thousands of locums across the UK already finding locum work!
"I was introduced to the local locum chambers several months ago when I made a career move from partnership. I now combine salaried and locum roles. The chambers provides helpful support, leadership, advice and governance and reduces professional isolation. This combination of support reassures me and helps me provide safe and consistent care to patients within the community . There is a useful, innovative online portal - LocumDeck - which helps me access local work and which has efficient systems for reconciliation of finance including pensions. I would highly recommend joining a locum chambers for any GPs starting out in the locum world ."
"LocumDeck is self-explanatory and having never made/sent an invoice before it's made my life a lot easier, and made me feel reassured I hadn’t forgotten anything important.
I’ve recommended it to my colleague/friend who is also starting out as a GP locum."
"I started my career as a GP locum last year a week after CCT. I strongly agree with the doctors who praise the NASGP team. If there is no NASGP, there would be no GP locum called Dr Darshanie Seneviratne.
The team is absolutely amazing especially Dr Richard Fieldhouse, Ali Lewis and Jacqui Gumbrell – all providing unbelievable support to us. I've never seen such urgent assistance from any other team at any point in my career. For example when one of my invoices was delayed by a month and a half, Ali was incredibly supportive. It is a very good strength for us as we have support with any issues. I would like to stay with this amazing team forever. "
"I have been a member of the NASGP for the past nine years and have found the advice and support offered invaluable. NASGP passionately champions for safe and fair working conditions for locums, which is crucial in an age of increasing medical litigation.
LocumDeck is a must for every locum who just wants to get on with the job that they were trained to do."
"Going from being a trainee to being a GP can be a really difficult transition. Taking on the administration associated with things like locum work can make that even more difficult.
Ali from LocumDeck showed me how to use their tool to simplify and automate the invoicing and locum form process to save me time and energy. With the free one-year membership for new GPs this was a real no-brainer that meant I could spend more time on the things that really matter, and less time filling in paperwork.
I can't thank Ali enough for her help and the time she has saved me."
"I was delighted to have been invited to join GP locum chambers. I enjoy great peer support from my colleagues via our monthly meetings, which has been helpful to me discussing some specific things that arise with GP locum working. I have found LocumDeck really straightforward to use and immensely helpful; in particular invoicing and the pension forms A and B has cut down my admin time dramatically, which I’m pleased about. The support from NASGP's membership support manager, is excellent, friendly and knowledgeable. I would recommend NASGP chambers to anyone working or thinking of working as a GP locum."
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across the UK and get booked?
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Created by locums for locums
Dr Richard Fieldhouse and Dr Sara Chambers founded NASGP in 1997 to provide healthcare professionals with an independent, trusted membership body that empowers, supports and enables GP locums and practices to work more efficiently together.
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Are you a GP in training planning to do locum work after your CCT? Join our supportive community today for FREE. Access helpful online resources, educational webinars, events, and forums, connect with our locum support network, and manage your locum work easily with LocumDeck.
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Locum GP FAQ's
Can I offer Instant Book availability for some, but not all, of my practices?
Yes, that is absolutely fine. Use the ‘Activate’ toggle to show practices your Instant Book availability.
How does Instant Book handle travel time between practices?
LocumDeck uses Google Maps to calculate the typical journey time between practices. So, if there is not enough time between finishing a session in one practice to travel to a session start time in another practice, then you will not be visible or bookable by the second practice.
You can also set the maximum journey duration you are prepared to travel between practices in My availability settings.
TIP: If you only want to work in one practice a day, just set the travel between practices at 0 minutes and, once you’ve got a booking with a practice for part of that day’s availability, no other practice will be able to book you.
How does LocumDeck’s ‘Instant Book’ booking system work?
We designed LocumDeck for you to set your own sessions and show availability to practices you choose to link with so they can book you directly. You don’t have to wait for requests from practices – you can plan ahead, set your terms, then the work you want finds you. We call it Instant Book.
You can also see practices’ requests for cover.
How LocumDeck’s Instant Book works
When you set up ‘Instant Book’ in LocumDeck:
- You authorise which practices are allowed to see your real-time availability.
- For each practice you can specify in great detail the type of work you are prepared to carry out with them, at what times and at what rates.
- You pro-actively plan and add your ‘Availability’ to your calendar, so you can make considered decisions about your working patterns rather than having to make rushed decisions reactively in response to enquiries.
- Each of your authorised practices only ‘sees’ the sessions that you allow them to that fit within your ‘Available’ slots.
- Practices can see your credentials and your full term and conditions alongside your session availability to inform their booking decision.
- You are notified by text and email confirmation when you receive an ‘Instant Book’ booking on LocumDeck.
LocumDeck’s setup guides have a step-by-step introduction to the feature, called ‘Get booked by practices‘.
GP locum membership fees
In our three-month free trial or within one of our funded areas (funded areas) Instant Book is completely free.
After that membership is £12/month – £15 per session.
All membership and booking fees are tax-deductible.
How do I use LocumDeck to find NHS GP jobs?
There are a few of ways you can use LocumDeck to find GP locum jobs in the UK.
You can look for GP locum and salaried GP jobs, both in GP practices near you and by exploring GP jobs at new practices.
Find NHS salaried GP jobs
LocumDeck has a GP jobs board that’s private to GPs and GP practices. Login to see the GP vacancies near you and across the UK.
Login to LocumDeck to browse GP jobs near you.
Find NHS GP locum jobs near you
LocumDeck has a smart way of booking designed by GP locums which means you don’t have to find work – the work finds you. It’s called Instant Book.
With Instant Book, you don’t have to wait for job alerts from practices. Instead, you set up your terms and profile, tell your chosen practices how you want to work and add your availability to LocumDeck’s calendar. Your practices can review your terms and credentials then book you instantly.
Practices like the efficiency of not having to post alerts and wait for responses, and you get the work you want on your terms, with minimal hassle and fewer booking errors.
Our LocumDeck Setup Guides have a step-by-step introduction, ‘Get booked by practices‘, which can get you started.
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GPs can also look out for ‘Availability requests’ from local practices.
If a practice on LocumDeck needs cover but no locums have made themselves available for pre-set instant booking on the dates they need, the practice can send out an Availability request, to all GP locums on LocumDeck within a 45-minute radius.
GP locums can quickly respond by clicking on the request on the calendar, and selecting a session to offer for booking. The practice gets notified when a GP locum responds. The practice can review the GP’s LocumDeck profile and terms, and book you right away.
Join our free three-month trial to browse jobs and sessions.
Find NHS salaried GP and partner jobs
LocumDeck has a GP jobs board. Login to see the GP vacancies near you and across the UK.
Join for free to browse jobs and sessions on LocumDeck today – no credit card needed.
Can practices book me directly on LocumDeck?
Yes. We designed LocumDeck for you to set your own locum sessions and show availability to practices you choose to link with so they can book you directly. You don’t have to find work or wait for requests from practices – you can plan ahead, set your terms, then the work you want finds you. We call it Instant Book.
If you don’t want to use Instant Book, you can add your own bookings to your calendar too.
Our Setup Guide called Get booked by practices shows you how to set up for Instant Booking.
If you are in NASGP Locum Chambers, Instant Book will be the main way you get the work you want quickly and with minimal day to day hassle. The Chambers Managers support and oversee the process and help you and the practices with any complexities e.g. queries, cancellations, complaints, and special requests. Read more.
Can I add my own bookings to LocumDeck?
Yes, you can. Our short video on how to add unconfirmed sessions to your LocumDeck calendar shows you how.
And you can confirm sessions on your LocumDeck calendar yourself too.
What are NASGP’s membership tiers?
As a fully-qualified GP, you can choose from two levels of NASGP membership.
Membership
Membership supports you for just £12 a month, with a booking fee of £15 per session (pre-set instant bookings only, £11 for remote sessions).
NASGP Locum Chambers
NASGP Locum Chambers make you part of a respected team for just £35 a month, plus £11/session for the first 20 sessions/month.
You can try LocumDeck for free first.
What is Instant Book and why is there a fee?
Instant Book is a feature that lets you confirm work automatically, without back-and-forth messaging or manual approval. This saves you time, reduces admin, and gives practices peace of mind with a clear, reliable booking. The small Instant Book fee of only £15 per session (£11 for members) covers the support that make this smooth process possible from automated confirmations to invoicing and pension tracking. Practices love it because it cuts down on their admin work too, making them more likely to book locums who use it.
Importantly, Instant Book often pays for itself, as members using it typically secure more bookings and can often set slightly higher rates. Plus, the fee is tax deductible.
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