Agency Workers Regulations and Locum GPs June 2012
This guidance will be useful for locums who are employed by locum agencies, as well as the practices who hire them.
Practices should be aware that the Regulations also apply to any other staff that they hire through agencies eg. secretarial staff.
The Agency Workers Regulations came into force on 1st October 2011, entitling agency workers to equal treatment with directly recruited employees with respect to basic employment conditions.
NB. In explaining the new rights afforded by the Regulations, this guidance refers to three parties:
- Agency – the temporary work agency that engages the worker (in this case the locum agency)
- Hirer – the organisation to whom the worker is actually supplied to provide work services (in this case the GP practice or OOH provider)
- Worker – the individual concerned (excluding self-employed Drs who provide services through an agency to clients or customers of the doctors business)
Framework for zero-hour GP contracts
This guidance seeks to set out some guidelines to GPs and employers on the key contractual and engagement considerations of a zero hours contract.
Framework for zero hours GP contracts
Locum GP handbook
The BMA Locum GP handbook has been produced as one of the many benefits available to BMA members, providing advice and guidance on all aspects of GP locum work. It should be useful for:
- Locum GPs
- Those intending or about to become locum GPs
- Practices and other providers who engage the services of locum GPs.
Model Contract of Employment for a GP Retention Scheme
This contract sets out the terms and conditions of your employment and includes the particulars of your employment, which are required to be given to you under the Employment Rights Act 1996 by the Practice as a General Practitioner under the NHS’s GP Retention Scheme.
Salaried GP model contract and model offer letter
This guidance was produced by the British Medical Association (BMA) and should be read in conjunction with the BMA Salaried GPs’ Handbook. It provides guidance on the model salaried GP contract for a GP employed by a GMS practice.
The ‘model’ contract for GMS practices consists of a model offer letter and model terms and conditions which provide the minimum that must be offered to a salaried GP employed by
a GMS practice as originally agreed between the BMA and NHS Confederation in 2003. The original agreed version, and so the minimum requirements (as defined in the GMS Contracts Regulations: see chapter 6, section 2.1 of the Salaried GPs’ Handbook), is the version set out in below as it applies to England.
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Salaried GPs handbook Updated 2025
The BMA’s salaried GP handbook is written for salaried GPs and GP employers. It will also be of interest to those who are intending or
about to become salaried GPs. It explains the legal entitlements of salaried GPs as employees and helps to ensure that salaried GPs
are aware of their statutory and contractual rights. It also helps to prevent GP employers from contravening the law unwittingly. In addition, it explains the national and local representation of salaried GPs, how to become a salaried GP and the work involved.
Variation of Employment Contract Template Letter
Variation of Employment Contract
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