--- title: Lantum Blog (35) description: Primary Care advice for GPs and Practice Managers (35) --- [![Lantum](https://blog.lantum.com/hubfs/Lantum%20March2018/Images/logo-header.svg)](https://us.lantum.com) for Locums - [Locums](https://lantum.com/) - [Practices](https://lantum.com/p/practices/) - [Hubs](https://lantum.com/p/hubs/) - [Federations](https://lantum.com/p/nhs-federation/) [Simon Horton](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/simon-horton), [Managing finances](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/managing-finances) 20 Jan 2012 ## [How to negotiate your best rate. 5 top tips for increasing your earnings. (Part 1)](https://blog.lantum.com/p/blog/managing-finances/how-to-negotiate-your-best-rate-5-top-tips-for-increasing-your-earnings-part-1) Negotiating rates – it’s a bit of a minefield, isn’t it? We want to get what we’re worth, we want to get near the top end of the range available but, at the same time, we don’t want to price.... [Read More](https://blog.lantum.com/p/blog/managing-finances/how-to-negotiate-your-best-rate-5-top-tips-for-increasing-your-earnings-part-1) 0 Comments [Opinion](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/opinion), [GP Commissioning](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/gp-commissioning) 16 Dec 2011 ## [GP Locums as Clinical Commissioning Champions (CCC): Professional isolation or a chance to shine as leaders? (Part 2)](https://blog.lantum.com/p/blog/opinion/gp-locums-as-clinical-commissioning-champions-ccc-professional-isolation-or-a-chance-to-shine-as-leaders-part-2) Part 2 ([click here to read part 1](http://blog.networklocum.com/2011/12/09/gp-locums-as-clinical-commissioning-champions-ccc-professional-isolation-or-a-chance-to-shine-as-leaders-part-1/)) [Read More](https://blog.lantum.com/p/blog/opinion/gp-locums-as-clinical-commissioning-champions-ccc-professional-isolation-or-a-chance-to-shine-as-leaders-part-2) 0 Comments [CCG](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/ccg), [Opinion](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/opinion), [GP Commissioning](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/gp-commissioning) 09 Dec 2011 ## [GP Locums as Clinical Commissioning Champions (CCC): Professional isolation or a chance to shine as leaders? (Part 1)](https://blog.lantum.com/p/blog/opinion/gp-locums-as-clinical-commissioning-champions-ccc-professional-isolation-or-a-chance-to-shine-as-leaders-part-1) Whether you like it or not, it’s inevitable that the new NHS landscape at the end of the 2012/13 will look and feel very different in that the new landscape would have transformed into one locally.... [Read More](https://blog.lantum.com/p/blog/opinion/gp-locums-as-clinical-commissioning-champions-ccc-professional-isolation-or-a-chance-to-shine-as-leaders-part-1) 0 Comments [Mindfulness and burnout](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/mindfulness-and-burnout) 02 Dec 2011 ## [Get the balance right – How to reduce the stress involved with having more things to organise](https://blog.lantum.com/p/blog/mindfulness-and-burnout/get-the-balance-right-how-to-reduce-the-stress-involved-with-having-more-things-to-organise) Locumming is attractive to many GPs because it gives them greater freedom and flexibility, particularly if they have many outside interests. Dr Ishani Patel, a recently qualified GP is.... [Read More](https://blog.lantum.com/p/blog/mindfulness-and-burnout/get-the-balance-right-how-to-reduce-the-stress-involved-with-having-more-things-to-organise) 1 Comment [GMC](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/gmc), [Overseas](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/overseas), [Overseas coming and going](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/overseas-coming-and-going) 26 Nov 2011 ## [Guide to licensing in the UK](https://blog.lantum.com/p/blog/overseas-coming-and-going/guide-to-licensing-in-the-uk) Getting a license to practice medicine in the UK can seem straightforward enough if you completed all of your medical training in the UK. Similarly, the General Medical Council recognizes European.... [Read More](https://blog.lantum.com/p/blog/overseas-coming-and-going/guide-to-licensing-in-the-uk) 1 Comment [GMC](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/gmc), [Other](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/other), [Education and CPD](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/education-and-cpd) 18 Nov 2011 ## [Prepare for Revalidation](https://blog.lantum.com/p/blog/education-and-cpd/prepare-for-revalidation) As I was researching to write this article, I was disappointed to see that much of the readily available information for locums was so unconstructive. Many articles and interviews I have done on this.... [Read More](https://blog.lantum.com/p/blog/education-and-cpd/prepare-for-revalidation) 0 Comments [CPD](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/cpd), [Overseas coming and going](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/overseas-coming-and-going) 10 Nov 2011 ## [Locums seeking work from abroad: Get your ‘competence passport’](https://blog.lantum.com/p/blog/overseas-coming-and-going/locums-seeking-work-from-abroad-get-your-competence-passport) > *As more and more locums are coming into the marketplace from outside the UK there has been growing concern about language and competency skills of locums. If you are a locum seeking work from....* [Read More](https://blog.lantum.com/p/blog/overseas-coming-and-going/locums-seeking-work-from-abroad-get-your-competence-passport) 0 Comments [Limited company vs sole trader](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/limited-company-vs-sole-trader) 03 Nov 2011 ## [Now you are a business – Market yourself as a locum GP](https://blog.lantum.com/p/blog/limited-company-vs-sole-trader/now-you-are-a-business-market-yourself-as-a-locum-gp) As a locum, you are effectively now a business. If you want to get booked and get the rates you deserve you should invest in marketing. [Read More](https://blog.lantum.com/p/blog/limited-company-vs-sole-trader/now-you-are-a-business-market-yourself-as-a-locum-gp) 0 Comments [NHS pension](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/nhs-pension) 02 Nov 2011 ## [Locum Pensions 101: Part 1](https://blog.lantum.com/p/blog/nhs-pension/locum-pensions-101-part-1-2) [Read More](https://blog.lantum.com/p/blog/nhs-pension/locum-pensions-101-part-1-2) 0 Comments [Advice Guide](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/advice-guide), [Mindfulness and burnout](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/mindfulness-and-burnout), [GP recruitment](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/gp-recruitment) 13 Oct 2011 ## [Make it easy for practices to employ you. - Our top tips on getting the job and being asked back!](https://blog.lantum.com/p/blog/mindfulness-and-burnout/make-it-easy-for-practices-to-employ-you-our-top-tips-on-getting-the-job-and-being-asked-back) ###### MAKE IT EASY FOR PRACTICES TO EMPLOY YOU. – *OUR TOP TIPS ON GETTING THE JOB AND BEING ASKED BACK!* ###### **1. Getting the job:** **“We want to know that we can count on that locum to fill that session”** [Read More](https://blog.lantum.com/p/blog/mindfulness-and-burnout/make-it-easy-for-practices-to-employ-you-our-top-tips-on-getting-the-job-and-being-asked-back) 0 Comments [← Previous](https://blog.lantum.com/page/34) [1](https://blog.lantum.com/page/1) [...](https://blog.lantum.com/page/30) [32](https://blog.lantum.com/page/32) [33](https://blog.lantum.com/page/33) [34](https://blog.lantum.com/page/34) [35](https://blog.lantum.com/page/35) [36](https://blog.lantum.com/page/36) [Next →](https://blog.lantum.com/page/36) ### Subscribe to the newsletter ### Categories - [NHS (44)](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/nhs) - [Mindfulness and burnout (35)](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/mindfulness-and-burnout) - [Opinion (35)](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/opinion) - [Clinical (33)](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/clinical) - [Getting work (30)](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/getting-work) - [Primary Care (30)](https://blog.lantum.com/tag/primary-care) - 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