Locums

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Financial Management & Funding

Underfunded contract stops owners paying locums the going rate

Nick Kaye says that while locums should get the rates they ask for, contractual funding is a barrier

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Employment

LPC chair: Some locums guilty of ‘unprofessional blackmail behaviour’  

Amish Patel said a minority of locums delay their application, then ask for a higher rate right before the shift.

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Public health

GPhC promises to look into ‘complex issue’ of pharmacy closures

Duncan Rudkin says the issue is financial and labour market-driven rather than regulatory.

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Locums want to join Covid vaccination effort

An agency has found that nearly all of the locums on its books are willing to administer the Covid vaccine.

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Locums without flu training could be out of work this winter

Many locums could find themselves out of work this winter as some companies give priorities to those with flu training.

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GPhC

GPhC prepared to pursue employers over Covid risk assessments

The GPhC is prepared to investigate employers who fail to carry out covid-19 risk assessments, chief executive Duncan Rudkin has said.

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PDA

PDA defends right of locums to set their rates

PDA warns off companies which threaten to report locums who raise rates to GPhC.

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Coronavirus

Exclusive: Locums told to triple rates during COVID-19 crisis

An email that has apparently been sent to a number of locum pharmacists in England advises them to increase their rates of pay.

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Coronavirus

IR35 delayed for a year by coronavirus

Controversial tax change delayed as Treasury announces £330bn package for economy.

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PDA

2019 tops the table for unpaid locum fees

PDA helps locums recover a record £50,000 in unpaid fess in 2019.

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