Nasgp | The Art Of Gp Locuming

Zoe Neill had begun to feel trapped as a GP partner. She describes her journey, and speaks to Richard Fieldhouse in our latest podcast. Time was when the look of disappointment from a GP colleague would have got me down. “I was a full-time partner for 9 years,” I would proffer, but they had already moved on to someone far more erudite and accomplished: someone who hadn’t failed. Oh, you’re a GP locum… But this time the disappointment has a different vibe; “Why aren’t you staying? Can’t you see me next time? You’ve really listened.” Over the last four years, my GP identity has shifted and morphed, and is very different from when I was first shoved out of the sausage machine of training, a straight arrow through hospital medicine, then a salaried post, then a partner. On January 3rd 2015, I arrived in a new practice as a newly fledged GP locum, arriving 30 minutes before my first ever locum surgery so that I could teach myself EMIS web. (I do like a steep learning curve!) Since then, through a variety of planne