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Why make locums responsible for governance in revalidation?

By Dr Richard Fieldhouse | 16 Feb 2012
GP locums are not responsible for, let alone easily involved in, governance at the practices they serve, Dr Fieldhouse argues, and revalidation should protect patients rather than embroiling doctors...
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K M Hawking, GP Partner,
20 Feb 2012
How much more do you expect practices employing a locum for a day or single session to do as a routine?"The very least an individual locum can do is to ask every practice to sign a declaration - why not put it at the end of your invoice? – stating that they will inform you within a set time of any feedback, incidents, changes to your management, mistakes or compliments that they receive about you"
(DOI partner in a practice trying to only use locums in dire emergencies - so not in regular contact: would be different if, as it were, on a "Bank" pool system).
"But the idea that part of a locum's appraisal will be based on the clinical governance of an organisation over whom they have no say or control seems obtuse."
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