Health Sector Workers Are No More Immune From Illness Than Anyone Else

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Health Sector Workers Are No More Immune From Illness Than Anyone Else

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info@locuminsurance.co.uk When you work in the medical sector, it is an unfortunate fact that you are not immune to becoming ill yourself. In fact, illness and accidents can strike anybody, anywhere, at any time, as we have recently seen with the pandemic.

The problem that you have when you run a GP surgery, or are a partner in one, is that you have to continue to provide your services to your patients. This is true, whether you work in the NHS or in private practice. So, when one of your partners goes sick, or one of your nurses, perhaps, you can be hard pushed to cover for them.

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Fair enough, if they have just got a nasty cold and are only going to be away for three or four days, then you can probably rally round and cover for them in the short term.

However, if they are involved in a car accident or suffer major health issues, it is an entirely different matter. You just don’t have enough team members to cover for them for two weeks or two months, or even longer. Some situations can be such that an individual can be away for a year until he or she is well enough to return to work. Under those sorts of circumstances, you really have no other choice than to hire a GP locum to stand in for them.

Hiring A Locum Is Not Difficult Now it is not too difficult to hire a locum because there are agencies that many doctors work for as locums, and they can usually find you someone almost immediately. That will get you over the problem of covering for one of your partners who is away from work, but unfortunately, locums come at a price.

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Indeed, this is why a lot of locums choose to work in this way.

Certainly, there are some disadvantages, such as the fact that they have no guarantee of continuing work. But that aside, they can earn quite a lot more per hour than a doctor working in the NHS, and they can also choose to take a holiday whenever they wish. Some enjoy the work because they get to travel to different parts of the country, which is fine if you are single.

Whatever their choice, the fact is that today there are more doctors working as a GP locum than ever before. In a recent survey, half of practices reported that they were using locums more than ever, while about 20% said that locums were covering more than one quarter of their shifts.

This obviously results in increased overheads which in turn can make a considerable dent in your annual profit when you run a GP surgery. That is why you need to take out locum insurance which we can arrange for you at Approachable Locum Insurance. This will cover you for those extra overheads of hiring a locum when you need one in order to keep your practice running and take care of your patients.

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