Working as a GP locum has always been a (relatively) financially precarious existence. Finances depend on many factors: availability of work, terms and conditions, current rates of pay and how quickly ...
Dr Richard Fieldhouse, locum GP and chairman of the National Association of Sessional GPs, breaks down the crisis affecting locums across the country and offers a plan for the future. Editor’s note: ...
More than half of freelance doctors have struggled to find work in the last year, a survey suggests. A poll of more than 500 locum GPs in England, who charge up to £850 a day, revealed that 55 per ...
Extreme pressures on GP services in Northern Ireland have resulted in locum doctors being paid up to £1,000 a day to work in practices run by health trusts, an audit office report has found. The ...
A new BMA survey of 2,814 GP practices in England has found almost nine out of 10 struggle to find locum cover to plug staffing gaps and a similar number regularly need temporary GPs to staff their ...
Reliance on GP locums must force a rethink on the future workforce to create a positive opportunity to transform general practice, writes Nadeem Moghal Much of the narrative is focused on doctors ...
A locum GP is amongst a group of healthcare workers that have been peddling anti-vaxx myths as scientists continue to search for a coronavirus vaccine. Doctors are among those raising doubts about ...
Extreme pressures on GP services in Northern Ireland have resulted in locum doctors being paid up to £1,000 a day to work in practices run by health trusts, an audit office report has found. The ...
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