Knowledgebase

Our extensive library available to members, covering everything from clinical practice and risk to wellbeing and money. With expert guidance from specialist partners.

Ten tips for starting out as a GP locum in 2020

Richard Fieldhouse lists the skills, products and memberships that will have a positive impact on a new GP locum's career this year

GP locums

Day in the life of a Locum Chambers manager

Ali Lewis, NASGP’s longstanding Locum Chambers Manager, told us about a day in the life behind the scenes: how long it takes to join a Chambers, how managers get more practices on board, and how Instant Book is keeping locums busy during remote working

Locum chambers

Q&A: How NASGP Locum Chambers manage complaints and significant events

Complaints and significant events can be a stressful part of a GP locum’s career, especially when faced alone. But they also pose an opportunity to improve patient satisfaction, and support the GP locum to learn and grow

Complaints

Parents

NASGP membership is completely free from the point you notify us that you’re on parenting leave.

Preparing for a  Covid-19 winter

Dr Rachel Birch, medicolegal consultant at MPS, provides advice and practical tips for locum GPs

The ‘firefighter fiasco’: how age discrimination in public pensions affects GP locums

The Government has confirmed that changes made to firefighters’ pension in 2015 were age-discriminatory, and they will impact all public sector pensions

Money Matters

Financial advice for GP locums working ‘overtime’

Beware of unforeseen financial impact on NHS pension, national insurance and tax, specialist medical accountant Liz Densley advises

Money Matters

Judith Harvey: Learning to live  with masks

Masks are uncomfortable, your glasses steam up, they muffle sounds and restrict facial expressions. It’s difficult to know if you are wearing them correctly. You can’t eat, drink or smoke wearing a mask. Or kiss.

Judith Harvey

e-learning – Iron deficiency in pregnancy

An October 2019 guideline from BSH on managing iron deficiency in pregnancy has a few interesting points, particularly for GP locums facing requests from midwives to prescribe iron

Obstetrics

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

e-learning – Long term macrolide use in respiratory conditions

Most of the time, long term macrolide therapy will be initiated in secondary care. However, we may well be the ones writing the prescription, so it is worth being aware of some of the safety concerns

Standardised Practice Information Portal

NASGP’s free Standardised Practice Information Portal (Spip) allows every practice to store, share and retrieve all those ever-changing practice-specific phone numbers, email addresses, contact details, policies, guidelines, soft intelligence and service changes in one easy-to-find place at the moment you need it

Working as a freelance GP locum

Everything any GP needs to know about stepping into the exciting world of working as a GP locum

GP locum chambers

Locum chambers are small, independent groups of local self-employed locum GPs all working together through a shared management and clinical governance structure. They support NHS GP practices and locums to maintain, and in some cases improve, local GP services

Locum chambers

Working as a salaried GP

Frequently-asked questions about practice, paperwork and training as a salaried GP

Risk management

The Medical Protection Society has supported the NASGP for over 10 years with help and advice for sessional GPs around the management of risk

Code of Good Practice

NASGP has a continued aim to promote high standards of medical care. In doing so the NASGP has detailed its Code of Good Practice, which endorses the GMCs ‘Good Medical Practice’

Beware the old normal

As the government starts to ease lockdown, Judith Harvey questions what it is that we are easing ourselves back into

Judith Harvey

The GP locum tutor

An anoymous survey of GP locums finds that the majority of respondents were very happy with their role and recommended a GP locum career to students thanks to flexibility, workload autonomy and patient care, and reduction of admin and bureaucracy. But GP locums also said they faced isolation, disrespect and difficulty accessing knowledge updates

e-learning – Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA)

NICE guidance from March 2020 advises that men over 65 should be offered routine screening for AAA

Vascular

Tax-free  childcare (TFC) scheme during Covid-19

If you or your spouse/partner have ‘adjusted income’ under £100,000 in this tax year, you may be entitled to support under new rules

Reducing risk  on busy days

Dr Rachel Birch from MPS provides practical advice on how GP locums can catch omissions such as missed referrals, and prevent similar incidents in future

e-learning – Tinnitus

Mental health comes to the fore in new NICE guidance, published March 2020

Death-in-service benefits from the NHS: Are you returning to work due to COVID-19?

Find out about the death in service benefit, and private options available to GP locums returning to work during lockdown

e-learning – Leg ulcer infection: antibiotic prescribing

A NICE update on antibiotic prescribing for leg ulcers published in February 2020 includes a good visual guide to best practice

e-learning | Sotagliflozin with insulin for type 1 diabetes

A new guideline from NICE from February 2020 advises that sotagliflozin can be used alongside insulin for type 1 diabetes

GP locums and the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS)

Advice for GP locums claims SEISS income support during lockdown after losing work: who's eligible and how to claim

NASGP’s legal advice on NHS Pension ‘Death in Service’ benefits

Thanks to generous donations from NASGP members, we commissioned advice from specialist employment lawyer Ray Levy and barrister Mary O’Rourke QC on ‘Continual Service Contracts' and death in service benefits during Covid-19

e-learning | New treatments for hyperkalaemia

New guidelines from NICE update the guidance on prescribing sodium zirconium cyclosilicate and patiromer

A lockdown diary – a journal of our times

NASGP's columnist records the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK: Ocado queues, home haircuts and a temporary reprieve from FOMO

Judith Harvey

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) investigation and management – new NICE advice

PERC tests, anticoagulants, D-dimers, stockings and cancer investigations: a stack of new advice on VTE in guidance

Medicolegal risks for GP locums during Covid-19

GP locums may be asked to work in new ways in unfamiliar environments as a result of the Covid-19 crisis. Dr Rachel Birch, medicolegal consultant at MPS, advises on dilemmas they may face

Covid-19
MPS

Podcast | The Sessional GP Magazine April 2020

Richard Fieldhouse recaps the latest issue of the Sessional GP magazine: financial support for locums, medicolegal advice on remote working, a GP locum's lockdown diary and a clinical update on treating leg ulcers

Podcasts

Antimicrobial resistance: can we outrun evolution?

NASGP's columnist on life before – and possibly after – antibiotics

Judith Harvey

Actions after incorrect use of combined hormonal contraception (ie missed pills guidance)

The FSRH provided a good summary of guidance for those advising women about what to do after a missed pill

Impetigo, antibiotic use and hydrogen peroxide 1% cream

New guidance advises GPs consider using hydrogen peroxide cream as a first line in localised non-bullous impetigo

Financial assistance for locum GPs in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic

Advice on SEISS and Universal Credit for GP locums whose income has been affected by Covid-19.

e-learning | Indoor air quality

GPs are advised to start looking for at-risk patients, signposting patients to local authority housing assessments, and giving guidance on risk reduction

Public health

Giving effective feedback to a GP colleague

Neurology

Knowledgebase

Ten tips for starting out as a GP locum in 2020

Day in the life of a Locum Chambers manager

Q&A: How NASGP Locum Chambers manage complaints and significant events

Parents

Preparing for a Covid-19 winter

The ‘firefighter fiasco’: how age discrimination in public pensions affects GP locums

Financial advice for GP locums working ‘overtime’

Judith Harvey: Learning to live with masks

e-learning – Iron deficiency in pregnancy

Remote working: the blurred line between triage and consultation

e-learning – Long term macrolide use in respiratory conditions

Standardised Practice Information Portal

Working as a freelance GP locum

GP locum chambers

Working as a salaried GP

Risk management

Code of Good Practice

Beware the old normal

The GP locum tutor

e-learning – Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA)

Tax-free childcare (TFC) scheme during Covid-19

Reducing risk on busy days

e-learning – Tinnitus

Death-in-service benefits from the NHS: Are you returning to work due to COVID-19?

e-learning – Leg ulcer infection: antibiotic prescribing

e-learning | Sotagliflozin with insulin for type 1 diabetes

GP locums and the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS)

NASGP’s legal advice on NHS Pension ‘Death in Service’ benefits

e-learning | New treatments for hyperkalaemia

A lockdown diary – a journal of our times

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) investigation and management – new NICE advice

Medicolegal risks for GP locums during Covid-19

Podcast | The Sessional GP Magazine April 2020

Antimicrobial resistance: can we outrun evolution?

Actions after incorrect use of combined hormonal contraception (ie missed pills guidance)

Impetigo, antibiotic use and hydrogen peroxide 1% cream

Financial assistance for locum GPs in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic

e-learning | Indoor air quality

Giving effective feedback to a GP colleague

Returning from maternity leave

e-learning | Thyroid disease

Cluster headaches and gammaCore

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Preparing for a  Covid-19 winter

Judith Harvey: Learning to live  with masks

Tax-free  childcare (TFC) scheme during Covid-19

Reducing risk  on busy days