Looking for a LocumDeck alternative? An honest comparison

Both, with booking at the centre. Practices browse your dates, credentials and terms and book you directly through Instant Book; invoicing, pension forms and a credentials store are included. Practices pay nothing to use it.^[4][5]

Administration first: sessions, invoices, expenses, tax, pension forms, professional record. For work, a public profile in the locum directory and a booking request form organisations use without an account. There is no job board and no marketplace; organisations that already know you book you through it.^[2]

No free plan is described. A "Three-month free introductory period for new members". Practices pay nothing, and under the ICB option in NASGP's pricing document an ICB can pay so that locums working in its practices have free use, Instant Book fees included.^[5][4]

Basic is free with no card and no end date: up to 3 shifts and 2 invoices a month, a CPD evidence store of 50 items, CSV and PDF exports, and the whole appraisal record. Plus and Pro have a 14-day trial the first time you subscribe; a card is taken and nothing is charged until the trial ends.^[1]

£12 a month for the GP locum, including VAT, plus £15 for each session booked through Instant Book, paid by the locum by Direct Debit at the end of the month the session was worked (NASGP pricing document, April 2024). A year at the monthly fee alone is £144; each Instant Book session adds £15. Where an ICB has bought NASGP's ICB option, both are covered for locums working in its practices. NASGP's own membership page served only its title as readable text on the day we checked, so whether these are the current prices is not confirmed.^[4][6]

Plus £14.99 a month or £149.99 a year paid annually. Pro £24.99 a month, which adds Xero sync and the API. No per-session, per-booking or percentage fees. At the monthly rate a year of Plus is £179.88 and a year of Pro is £299.88.^[1]

Invoicing is included. Automatic reminders for unpaid invoices are not described in the documents we could read.^[4][5]

On Plus and Pro an overdue invoice is chased by email at day 14, 21 and 28, each chaser attaching the original PDF, with a 72-hour cooldown per invoice so a chaser cannot fire twice in quick succession. Basic shows paid and unpaid without chasing. Replies to an invoice land on that invoice as a conversation on every plan.^[2]

"integrated paperless NHS pension forms", with Form A signed by the practice inside the system. Whether Form B and Form SOLO are produced, and which nations are covered, is not stated in the documents we could read.^[4][5]

For GPs on Plus and Pro, Form A and Form B are generated from your logged sessions and follow the pension year (1 April to 31 March). England and Wales are filled onto the official NHSBSA forms, ready for PCSE; Scotland onto the NSS Contractor Finance Form A and Form B; for Northern Ireland, where HSC publishes Word and Excel templates, you get a transcription sheet with the computed figures to copy across. Form SOLO is not produced.^[2][3]

The G-Cloud listing mentions a peer feedback system and access to CPD resources. An appraisal record, reflections or a CPD evidence store are not described in the documents we could read.^[5]

On every plan including free Basic, permanently: a professional record built from your logged sessions in the GMC scope-of-work shape, reflections, learning needs, a CPD evidence store (50 items on Basic, unlimited on Plus), colleague and patient feedback reports with a verification code (reading what you have collected is free; starting a round and sending invitations needs Plus or Pro), and the appraisal pack with its export.^[1][2]

Exports and importing existing records are not described in the documents we could read.^[5][4]

In: past sessions and invoices import from CSV with a template and per-row errors, and an invoice built with the free invoice tool imports at sign-up. Out: sessions and invoices as CSV, invoices and the appraisal pack as PDF, and the whole account as JSON with a manifest of your document files (the files themselves download from their own pages, except message attachments, which support supplies on request), on every plan; expense and earnings CSV exports on Plus and Pro; Xero sync and a REST API on Pro. Deleting the account offers the export first and erases after a 30-day cooling-off period.^[2][1]