GP Finance

Financial tools built for UK GPs

Built by a working GP. Understand your NHS pension, calculate your true locum rate, model your retirement and make better financial decisions.

  • Built by a GP
  • Based on NHSBSA, HMRC & other primary sources

Popular GP tools

The ones GPs and locums open most.

The GP Locum home screen, showing this month's earnings, sessions and deadlines

Free to start — on iPhone, Android and the web

Locum? Do the admin on your phone

GP Locum logs your sessions, raises your invoices, fills your NHS Pension Form A and Form B, and gets your Making Tax Digital updates ready. Made by the same GP as this site.

On the App Store for iPhone, Google Play for Android, and at gplocumapp.co.uk on any computer. Sign in on both and they stay in step.

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Getting Started as a Locum GP

The complete checklist from CCT to your first session: performers list, indemnity, the paperwork practices ask for, HMRC, invoicing, pension forms and what to charge.

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Locum GP Software and Apps

GP Locum App, Locum Organiser, My Locum Manager and NASGP's LocumDeck side by side, plus a spreadsheet or an accountant: what each costs, free trials, pension forms and MTD.

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NHS Email for Locum GPs

Keep your nhs.net address when training ends: move it to the GP locum organisation within 30 days, with a Microsoft 365 licence, and an email you can copy.

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Locum GP Indemnity and Insurance

What the state scheme covers, why you still need an MDO, income protection, car insurance, and the locum cover insurance practices buy.

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GP Locum Rates

Why there is no official rate, what competition law lets you share, and the salaried pay range as a yardstick.

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Portfolio GP Roles

Trainer, appraiser, teaching, examining, tribunal, medical examiner, CQC and expert witness work, with what each pays where it is published.

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Making Tax Digital for Locum GPs

Who is in scope, the quarterly deadlines, why the employer pension contribution stays out of turnover, and the filing routes.

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NHS Pension Explained for GPs

How the scheme really works: accrual, what you'll get, contribution tiers, revaluation, and annualisation for locums.

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GP Locum Tax Guide

Every deduction that comes out of a newly qualified locum's fees: tax, Class 4 NI, student loan, pension, expenses and the first 31 January.

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Sole Trader vs Limited Company

Why NHS locum work through a company loses the NHS pension, 2026/27 company tax, IR35 explained, and worked figures at three fee levels.

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The 1995 and 2008 Sections

How legacy NHS pensions are worked out: final salary for hospital doctors, career average with dynamising for GPs, lump sums and the final salary link.

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Locum GP Pension Guide

Forms A and B, the 90% rule, the 10-week deadline, and the annualisation traps that cost locums pension.

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Type 2 Forms Explained

The self-assessment form for salaried and sessional GPs: who files, annualisation, and the deadlines.

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PCSE Pension Record Wrong or Missing

Wrong figures or missing years on your NHS pension record: who corrects it, what to send PCSE, and how to complain and escalate.

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Retiring as a GP

Early, partial and 24-hour retirement, ill health retirement, lump sums, death in service, and when to apply through PCSE.

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Annual Allowance

Pension input amounts, the tapered allowance, carry forward and Scheme Pays, with 2026/27 figures.

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McCloud Remedy

The choice you'll face on your 2015–2022 service, the timelines, and the tax side that needs action.

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ERRBO

Buying out the early retirement reduction: what you can buy, what it costs, and whether it's worth it.

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NHS Pension vs SIPP

How the 2015 CARE pension and a SIPP compare: the employer contribution, break-even return, death and survivor benefits, and tax. Facts, not advice.

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Transferring an NHS Pension to a SIPP

Why it is almost never allowed, the one exception, where an NHS pension can go, and what doctors who want a SIPP do instead.

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What Is the Hypothetical Annuity Cost?

The big number on your Total Reward Statement: what it measures, why it is so large, and why it is not a transfer value.

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Projections and figures are based on what you enter. Not financial advice, speak to a regulated adviser before making decisions.