Knowledgebase
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
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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
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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
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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
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My journey to life as a locum
Like many highly skilled professions, a career in general practice can be a journey with obstacles to overcome, barriers to navigate and choices to make. NASGP member Tina Sumner describes how she came to be working as a GP locum and how NASGP has helped her in that journey.
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Being mindful of medical hierarchy
Medical hierarchy may present a challenge, and at times a possible reluctance, to open discussions about patients. Dr Rachel Birch, medicolegal consultant at Medical Protection, discusses possible reasons for this and provides helpful strategies to overcome this.
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The story of a locum session; missing out on marginal gains
In this final article, we'll run through a hypothetical locum session (but inspired by real events!) and the typical response to errors, finally examining how a more considered, system-based approach based on the learning from psychology and Black Box thinking could promote patient safety, practice efficiency and GP morale and retention.
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Systems to improve continuity of care
Following on from her previous article Dis-continuity; putting care into context, Dr Sara Chambers explores the idea that sometimes continuity of care is deployed to paper over the cracks where 'continuity of management' and 'information' is lacking or even absent, and why the locum's perspective needs to be part of a future solution.
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Podcast | A viper’s nest: when venom is a man’s best friend
Did you know that captopril was derived from the venom of the deadly Brazilian pit viper? Since it went on the market in 1981 captopril and its successor ACE inhibitors have probably saved many more lives than have been lost to pit vipers.
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