Membership FAQs

Join NASGP and be part of a supportive community. Gain access to expert resources, events, and tools to help you succeed, plus our award-winning live work management platform, LocumDeck

Benefits include:

• Instant Book
• AppraisalAid
• Dedicated member services call
• Essential handbooks and guides
• Support toolkit
• Rates calculator
• Remote session booking enabled
• Discounts available
• Testimonials

Find out more.

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‘. Login to see it. 

Our platform LocumDeck connects GPs with a variety of roles, from locum sessions to salaried positions. By working with ICBs, PCNs, and GP federations, we expand work opportunities and workforce stability.

Yes. On LocumDeck, GPs can set up as many different session types and rates as they need.

That way, GPs can define their terms before the session takes place.

LocumDeck helps GPs and practices offer and ask for availability for locum sessions.

We also have a free jobs board where practices can post their permanent vacancies for our members to read about.

Yes. We designed LocumDeck for GPs to link and show availability to practices so practices can book GP locums directly.

Neither GPs nor practices need to wait to book a session – both parties can agree on terms, set a rate and plan ahead on LocumDeck.

GPs can try NASGP membership, including LocumDeck, for free for three months. Find out more.

Practices can register and use LocumDeck for free.

No, NASGP is not an agency. We are a membership organisation that connects sessional GPs directly with practices through LocumDeck, our digital workforce platform and provide resources to support their careers. We ensure fair, cost-effective, and transparent bookings without agency fees.

You’ll pay your monthly membership fees by direct debit – through GoCardless, a trusted, easy-to-use provider. If you use LocumDeck to publish your availability and terms and take bookings directly from practices, we’ll send you invoices for the booking fees covering the sessions you’ve worked each month. You will also pay these invoices by direct debit, keeping everything simple and convenient.

Yes, NASGP is approved by HMRC as a professional organisation, and you can claim tax relief on your membership subscriptions. This GOV.UK page tells you more (we’re listed under ‘S’ as ‘Sessional GPs National Association of’).

Booking fees are also tax deductible, as they’re an expense incurred in doing your job.

Yes, and it’s completely free. So you get a helping hand in the early stages of your career, with no financial commitment. Find out more.