Locum Pack
Updated on Friday, 2 June 2017,
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The following tips will enable to your locum to work efficiently and happily without unnecessary interruptions and waste of valuable practice staff/doctor time. Every surgery organises these things differently and as they are ‘day to day’ things they can easily be overlooked
Before locum arrives
- PLEASE COMPLETE THE ONE PAGE LOCUM PACK AND ENSURE THIS IS GIVEN TO THE LOCUM ON ARRIVAL (or if possible emailed to them prior to arrival)
- Please ensure the locum has access to the online test requesting system – see attached document for instructions on how to do this – this will save us interrupting partners for bld/xray requests (a green card is no longer adequate and does not allow patients to book a time slot to suit them) On arrival of the Locum
On arrival of the locum
- Introduce the key person whom the locum should contact for queries
- Offer to show the locum around the practice even if they have been to you before. Specifically noting
- Emergency equipment/Panic alarms
- Doctors/nurses rooms
- Secretaries
- Tea/coffee equipment (That improves everyones day!)
- Make locum aware of location of fast track referral forms (Cancer, Chest pain, TIA)
- How to top up forms/swabs/blood bottles etc
- How does the locum handover a case at the end of the session? (paper/face to face/’tasks’ on EMIS etc)
- Please inform locum of visits/prescriptions and other tasks as early as possible
