Whether you are a locum GP, consultant, or an employer of locum services such as a GP practice or PCO, the BMA have guidance and fees to help with your negotiations.
Advice for locums
Negotiate your fee and the expenses you can claim for
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Locum agreements in...
The LMC office have received many enquiries since Capita (PCSE) took over from KPCA regarding how to claim fees due under Collaborative Arrangements. After much research we have discovered that practices can claim via SECSU by sending invoices based on the table of fees below.
What are...
When someone is deprived of their liberty anywhere other than a care home or hospital, this needs to be authorised by the Court of Protection.
The Court of Protection cannot make this determination without a declaration from a Doctor. They continue to use the term, 'unsound mind', as their...
The DS1500 form which was used to 'fast-track' benefits for patients with a prognosis of 6 months or less has been replaced by the 'SR-1' form (Special Rules-1 Form). It is largely the same form with two sections. The first relates to the patient diagnosis. The major change here is that there is...
Update Verification of death, Medical Certification of Cause of Death (MCCD) and Cremation form 4 from 25th March 2022
The Coronavirus Act 2020, which introduced easements to death certification processes and cremation forms, expires at midnight on 24 March 2022. Some changes have been...
The BMA has agreed a Memorandum of Understanding (attached) with the Home Office and the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) on the licensing of firearms, which addresses and clarifies the long-held concerns of GPs around liability, making it clear that the legal responsibility for judging...
LMC Guidance, to GPs on Medical Reports in support of Housing Applications, including a letter to the patient, the local authority and a poster for the surgery.
Paper forms and guidance to create and register a lasting power of attorney (LPA).
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/make-a-lasting-power-of-attorney
School Medical Certificates
The NHS service does not provide any payment for Occupational Health Service for patients and that means the only medical certificates that GPs are required to provide are set out in the GMS and PMS Contract. In essence that is the provision of a MED 3 to an...
Doctors provide many services which can incur fees.
Sometimes a fee relates to a specific treatment, in other cases a fee may be charged because the service in question falls outside a doctor's contract.
Fees, along with when and how much to charge, is a complex area, but you've come to the...
Several GP have sought advice on the provision of medical certificates for patients who are joining gym's etc. This work is outside your terms of service and you are entitled to decline to provide such a certificate. If you do agree to provide such a certificate you are able to charge a fee at...
BMA Advice: Non payment of reports for coroners
Doctors have raised concerns with the BMA about not being paid for coroner reports or statements of fact which they are obliged to provide. Under the current system the coroner pays then reclaims funds from the Local Authority.
Prior to 2008 the...
The BMA Mental Capacity tool kit contains a series of cards relating to specific areas of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (England and Wales). It is designed to raise awareness of the Act and to help in good decision-making when providing care and treatment for people who lack, or who may lack,...
The BMA has spoken with the Passport Office with regard to the new forms. The need to put down a passport number is a post September 11 initiative and, as one of the new anti-terrorism measures, there is no chance that the rules are going to be altered for a particular professional group. This...
