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GP locums in Manchester: Lower cost of living, same clinical challenges

Locuming in Manchester offers flexibility, professional development, and reasonable pay – all within a great Northern city that’s rich in history and culture.

Working as a GP

GP locuming in London: Rates, costs and opportunities within the M25

Locuming in London offers good pay, variety, and access to professional networks, but it also requires a different mindset. Our article explains why, and provides insider tips on how to cope.

Working as a GP

NASGP template: CPD time request letter for salaried GPs per contract

This article offers a straightforward letter template to help salaried GPs ask clearly and fairly for their CPD time.

Salaried GPs

The Sessional GP Magazine June 2025

Articles for sessional GP members

Risk management

Reporting a crime: confidentiality considerations for GP locums

Dr Emma Green, medicolegal consultant at Medical Protection, advises.

The need for a DBS certificate for GP locums: safety, trust, compliance

It's mandatory – a legal requirement – to have an up-to-date, enhanced DBS.

GP locums

When your patient is a doctor: considerations for GP locums

Dr Sophie Haroon, medicolegal consultant at Medical Protection, reflects on navigating the sometimes complicated doctor-‘doctor-patient’ relationship

Risk management

What makes a great LocumDeck bio for a GP locum?

A LocumDeck bio is your chance to showcase your skills, experience, and personality to potential clients or employers.

GP locums

Optimising your locum profile: tips for better bookings and rates

Some key ways to enhance your profile and secure more bookings.

Working as a GP

GP locum agencies and exclusivity clauses: risks to GP locums

While agencies may argue that exclusivity clauses compensate them for the initial introduction to a practice, in practice, these clauses often serve to restrict GP locums and protect agency profits at the expense of doctors and practices alike.

GP locums

Proactive vs reactive locuming: reasons for GPs posting availability

By giving you the opportunity to manage your availability before practices search for it, LocumDeck gives GP locums greater control over their working lives, improves visibility to practices, and makes it easier to secure regular, well-matched work on their own terms.

Why GP locums should think twice about agencies

A platform designed and led by GPs – like LocumDeck – offers a smarter, safer, and more empowering alternative.

Bank holidays, school terms and half-term breaks: 2027 dates for GPs

Use our resource to add your availability on LocumDeck well in advance.

Five reasons why LocumDeck is not a GP agency: platform explainer

NASGP’s platform, LocumDeck, isn’t a GP agency. We don’t speak for GPs, or control members. We give GPs the tools, freedom, and respect they deserve. Here’s why it’s different.

Bank holidays, school terms and half-term breaks: 2026 dates for GPs

Use our resource to add your availability on LocumDeck well in advance.

Bank holidays, school terms and half-term breaks: 2025 dates for GPs

Use our resource to add your availability on LocumDeck well in advance.

‘Becoming a GP locum’ (PDF)

Download our free guide today, published by our partners Medical Protection.

Starting out as a GP locum

Our well-read and up-to-date advice on how GP locums find and manage work.

Starting out as a GP locum

Our 2025 guide will equip you with all you need to know to get started as a locum.

Working as a GP

PUNs and DENs templates for sessional GPs – members’ download

When you discover Patients’ Unmet Needs you have found your first PUN, leading you on to then construct your DEN.

DBS checks for GP locums

Starting out as a salaried GP

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

GP locums and the importance of good communication: key skills

Dr James Thorpe, deputy medical director at Medical Protection, explains why good communication is essential for GP locums

GP perspectives on the NHS 10-Year Plan: NASGP workshop summary

We've summarised the workshop with the key talking points, and we're sharing this with the wider Change NHS consultation.

Working as a GP

The Sessional GP Magazine February 2025

Read the magazine and let us know what you think via info@nasgp.org.uk.

Working as a GP

Video: Finding locum work and getting bookings on LocumDeck

By following these five tips, you’ll not only optimise your LocumDeck profile but also increase your chances of getting booked and building long-term relationships with practices.

Working as a GP

Inquests: key considerations for GP locums

Dr Heidi Mounsey, medicolegal consultant at Medical Protection, explains how inquests work and why it is important that GP locums are aware of the process.

Setting GP locum session rates: how much to charge

Hourly and sessional charges, terms to consider, and BMA advice on rate-setting for GP locums.

Browse our NASGP Locum Chambers directory

NASGP Locum Chambers is ideal for GP locums who don’t want to go it alone. Each local NASGP Locum Chambers is a local team of up to 15 GP locums who meet up regularly. It is a collaborative group who share a dedicated manager and clinical director while retaining independence.

Locum chambers

GP locum checklist

Jiya Liz Peter developed a practical checklist that helps streamline common processes, making the experience seamless for all involved.

What can GPs do to reduce the incidence of suicide?

Dr Emma Davies, medicolegal consultant at Medical Protection, highlights key considerations for GP locums on this complex issue

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Pre-employment checklist for salaried GPs – GP guide

The resource helps GP locums gather information in the public domain, job description and experience of working at the practice, then reveals the questions still left for the practice partners or manager to supply information about.

Knowledgebase

GP locums in Manchester: Lower cost of living, same clinical challenges

GP locuming in London: Rates, costs and opportunities within the M25

NASGP template: CPD time request letter for salaried GPs per contract

The Sessional GP Magazine June 2025

Reporting a crime: confidentiality considerations for GP locums

The need for a DBS certificate for GP locums: safety, trust, compliance

When your patient is a doctor: considerations for GP locums

What makes a great LocumDeck bio for a GP locum?

Optimising your locum profile: tips for better bookings and rates

GP locum agencies and exclusivity clauses: risks to GP locums

Proactive vs reactive locuming: reasons for GPs posting availability

Why GP locums should think twice about agencies

Bank holidays, school terms and half-term breaks: 2027 dates for GPs

Five reasons why LocumDeck is not a GP agency: platform explainer

Bank holidays, school terms and half-term breaks: 2026 dates for GPs

Bank holidays, school terms and half-term breaks: 2025 dates for GPs

‘Becoming a GP locum’ (PDF)

Starting out as a GP locum

Starting out as a GP locum

PUNs and DENs templates for sessional GPs – members’ download

DBS checks for GP locums

Starting out as a salaried GP

GP locums and the importance of good communication: key skills

GP perspectives on the NHS 10-Year Plan: NASGP workshop summary

The Sessional GP Magazine February 2025

Video: Finding locum work and getting bookings on LocumDeck

Inquests: key considerations for GP locums

Setting GP locum session rates: how much to charge

Browse our NASGP Locum Chambers directory

GP locum checklist

What can GPs do to reduce the incidence of suicide?

GPs and the new Cause of Death certification forms

Patient follow-up request form for GP locums – download

QIA – Practice prescribing system proforma

Five ways to keep locuming well during quiet periods of work

Standardised Practice Information Portal

How to supervise physician associates: tips for GP locums

Podcast: GP locuming in New Zealand with Dr Jennie Ferrie

Video: Dr Varun Anand – adult obesity and weight management

The Sessional GP Magazine June 2024

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

Pre-employment checklist for salaried GPs – GP guide

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