Guides, tips, and updates for locums

Statutory interest on a late commercial invoice is 11.75% a year, plus a fixed recovery sum of £40 to £100. What that is worth, and how to claim it.

NHS England updated its ambient scribing guidance on 29 July 2026. Four things must be in place before deployment, and none of them is a locum's job.

The NHS in England reported 97,475 vacancies at 31 March 2026 and the registers are at record size, yet locums cannot fill a diary. Here is why.

NHS England now credits £213 towards an annual appraisal for NHS dentists, therapists and hygienists, locums included. The claim expires after two months.

The GMC's guaranteed-processing date passed on 14 September. Two months from the cut-off, here is what has moved on titles, scope and supervision.

England's 2026/27 GP money reimburses employment contracts, not invoices. Yet NHS England's own ad-hoc locum count rose by roughly a quarter year on year.

The GOC's consultation on testing of sight, delegation and remote supervision closes on 21 October 2026, and three in ten optometrists locum.

NHS England has named five Pharmacy First prescribing pathways, and only annotated prescribers at registered pharmacies can deliver them.

From 1 October the right to work checking duty reaches sub-contractors and matching services. From 5 October a DBS check costs less.

The NMC is rewriting the Code and rebuilding revalidation, and the proposals on confirmers, practice hours and verification land hardest on locums.

HMRC raised the approved mileage rate from 45p to 55p for the first 10,000 business miles, backdated to 6 April 2026. What to correct in your log.

NHS England has given every trust an agency limit and, for the first time, a bank limit. Here is the trajectory, the dates, and what to record now.