23rd May 2025 by NASGP
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Yes, that is absolutely fine. Use the ‘Activate’ toggle to show practices your Instant Book availability.
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.
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.
LOGIN TO SEE SETUP GUIDE ON GETTING BOOKED BY PRACTICES.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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