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 ...

The amount of GP locum work in the NHS in England stayed stable between 2018 and 2020, despite ‘widespread perceptions’ that numbers of locum GPs have risen, researchers have claimed. The paper by ...

The GPonline team discusses the key news stories affecting general practice in our podcast. This week the GPonline team talks about how untapped capacity among GP locums could help deliver hundreds of ...

First-year doctors have overwhelmingly voted to support strike action as a tool to make the Government solve the GP ...

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 ...

The GPonline team discusses the key news stories affecting general practice in our latest podcast episode. This week the GPonline team looks at the visa challenges facing international medical ...

U.K. startup Network Locum, which has built a staffing platform and workplace management software targeting the U.K.’s National Health Service, has acquired a smaller locum GP-booking platform, ...

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 ...

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 ...