close

Log in

Access to premium content is restricted to healthcare professionals / registered members. Login with your email address to continue.

Forgot Your Password?

Don't have an account? Sign up

Locums

jonathon-clarke-2-1280
Financial Management & Funding

Locate a Locum launches £5,000 scholarship fund for pharmacy students

Locate a Locum chief executive officer Jonathon Clarke said the fund showed its commitment to "supporting talented students.”

19 Sep 2024 , 1 Min Article

young-pharmacist-summary
Employment

Take screenshots, PDA tells locums amid ‘increase’ in employers reneging on terms

PDA alleges rise in businesses unilaterally changing agreed terms of locum shifts.

01 Aug 2024 , 2 Min Article

pharmacy-blur-summary
Employment

Pharmacy First locum fee deduction warning ‘not intended as a threat’

Job posting warned of deductions for 'incomplete Pharmacy First referrals'.

09 Feb 2024 , 3 Min Article

confidential-1280
Public health

PDA urges members to report 'commercially motivated' Pharmacy First behaviour

The PDA told members to get in touch in confidence after reports some companies threatened to cancel locums’ shifts.

05 Feb 2024 , 4 Min Article

rowlands-1280
Public health

Locums claim Rowlands threatened to cancel shifts if they didn’t make Pharmacy First declaration

Rowlands said locums are "responsible for ensuring they are competent to deliver Pharmacy First."

01 Feb 2024 , 1 Min Article

Asda 1280.jpg
Public health

Asda area manager warns locums who don’t engage with Pharmacy First will be removed

Asda healthcare area manager Andrew Windus said locums who refuse to engage with Pharmacy First will be "removed" from Locate a Locum's platform "permanently."

29 Jan 2024 , 1 Min Article

hmrc-1280
Financial Management & Funding

We’ll resist HMRC raid on independents’ bank accounts, insists NPA

The NPA's Gareth Jones says it will push back against HMRC's decision to classify all locums as employees for tax purposes.

05 Jan 2024 , 1 Min Article

locum-1280x720
Employment

Sector could face £550m retrospective tax bill if locums classed as employees says CCA

HMRC’s long running investigation into whether self-employed locum pharmacists used by pharmacies are employed for tax purposes covered in Financial Times

02 Jan 2024 , 1 Min Article

iStock-692794224 resize for web.jpg
Employment

Is it tougher being a pharmacy locum?

Flexible working as a pharmacy locum an attractive proposition, but there are downsides. P3 looks at current issues

18 Jul 2018 , 4 Min Article

Change privacy settings