Guides
Plain-English explainers on NHS pensions, tax, and the rules that affect GPs and locums.
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.
Read guide →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.
Read guide →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.
Read guide →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.
Read guide →GP Locum Rates
Why there is no official rate, what competition law lets you share, and the salaried pay range as a yardstick.
Read guide →Portfolio GP Roles
Trainer, appraiser, teaching, examining, tribunal, medical examiner, CQC and expert witness work, with what each pays where it is published.
Read guide →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.
Read guide →NHS Pension Explained for GPs
How the scheme really works: accrual, what you'll get, contribution tiers, revaluation, and annualisation for locums.
Read guide →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.
Read guide →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.
Read guide →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.
Read guide →Locum GP Pension Guide
Forms A and B, the 90% rule, the 10-week deadline, and the annualisation traps that cost locums pension.
Read guide →Type 2 Forms Explained
The self-assessment form for salaried and sessional GPs: who files, annualisation, and the deadlines.
Read guide →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.
Read guide →Retiring as a GP
Early, partial and 24-hour retirement, ill health retirement, lump sums, death in service, and when to apply through PCSE.
Read guide →Annual Allowance
Pension input amounts, the tapered allowance, carry forward and Scheme Pays, with 2026/27 figures.
Read guide →McCloud Remedy
The choice you'll face on your 2015–2022 service, the timelines, and the tax side that needs action.
Read guide →ERRBO
Buying out the early retirement reduction: what you can buy, what it costs, and whether it's worth it.
Read guide →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.
Read guide →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.
Read guide →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.
Read guide →Know when these figures change
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