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 ...

Exclusive Almost 70% of GP partners say they will be offering less locum work over the next few months than pre-Covid levels, a Pulse survey has revealed. The survey of 378 GP partners found that 28% ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patients in the most deprived areas of England face poorer levels of care due to an over-reliance on locum GPs, the British Medical Association has warned. Data analysis by BBC News found in some ...

Not a single person has applied for a job vacancy to work as a GP in a Pembrokeshire surgery in the last nine months, a report states, external. Goodwick Surgery in Pembrokeshire has no permanent ...

A medical fitness-to-practise inquiry of the Medical Council heard that the failure by Dr Alicia Marton Martinez to provide appropriate care had devastating consequences for one patient who required ...

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 ...