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 ...

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: ...

Ali Stunt was bent double with crippling pains under her ribcage when she went to her GP. ‘I’d already been to the practice three times in as many weeks because it was so intense,’ recalls Ali, 47, a ...

James Truswell, director at Menlo Park, answers a locum GP's dilemma over whether to go permanent. Question: I’ve been working as a locum GP for the last two years as I was attracted to the higher pay ...

GP locums taking a work break of over three months in any tax year could be caught by new rules that will increase the cost of their pension contributions. The rules were introduced on the 2017 Locum ...

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 ...