Petition to withdraw NHS bill

The MPU has asked us to work with them to sign this petition* that specifically counters the Government’s misuse of the number of GPs ‘signed up’ to Clinical Commissioning Groups as implying support for the whole NHS and Social Care Bill.

NASGP Newsletter August – September out now

Welcome to our 60th edition of the NASGP Newsletter. Fiona is in South Africa and reckons you should be too; Liz has lots of advice for all you newbie locums out there; Sara is whistleblowing; Judith doesn’t believe that efficiency is all it’s made up to be; Sonja explains that existential angst that many of us suffer, and Lucy from the GP Update team has some advice about staying in the shade. Plus our usual round up of local Sessional GP Groups around the UK.

Setting up and running a Sessional GP Group

When we set up the NASGP in 1997 there were only 7 Sessional GP groups in the UK, so we made it our main objective to encourage as many new groups to start as possible. Now there are over 90 such groups and chambers with an estimated combined membership of around 4,000 Sessional GPs.

Pensions – the new lifetime allowance and annual allowance

This is a ‘hot topic’ in many GPs’ minds and I suspect that many sessional doctors will just think it won’t apply to them. Whilst for younger, low earning NHS scheme members this may be true at the moment, there will be some it might affect.

Superannuation spreadsheet for LocumA and LocumB forms

Can’t believe how unbelievably complicated fulling out locum superannuation forms is? Wish there was a simpler way? We may have an answer for you. Brought to you from Pallant Medical Chambers, we have an updated comprehensive spreadsheet available for download that not only calculates but also prints out your A Forms AND B Forms – free, for NASGP members only.

Things we doctors learned from the Arabs

Bashar Al-Assad was doing his specialist training in ophthalmology at the Western Eye Hospital in London when his brother Basil wrapped himself and his sports car round a tree. Bashar’s father summoned him back home to prepare to succeed him. When his father died in 2000, Bashar became president of Syria.