• Team work and excellent shared reputation.
• Good rates of pay already negotiated.
• Clear, standardised working conditions e.g. 10min appointments and specific number of patients per surgery.
• Continued self-employed status with all NHS income remaining superannuable.
• Centralised booking service with online work diary.
• Invoices, pension forms , payments, etc all sorted for you.
• Professionalism – name badges , door name plates and ‘doctor profiles’ to augment professional relationships with patients and receptionists.
• Continuing professional development through:
  • consultant speaker meetings
  • compulsory attendance at home based Chambers meetings with other members from your area chambers.
  • confidential feedback from employing practices etc
• Free to join (subject to interview and references)

"After using the name plates, badges, profiles, dictation memo forms and hospital admission forms for a few days, as well as seeing some of the correspondence that the Chambers Managers send out, I just think the whole thing looks so much more professional than anything I have seen before. It really encourages me to lift my game. No wonder it has been such a success. Many congratulations to everyone involved."
Dr John Pike

“Joining Pallant was a good professional move for me. I feel proud to be part of a robust team. Efficient administration from the chambers managers with well designed systems bolted in ensures high standards and feedback as well as material for revalidation. My chambers lead is astute and supportive. After many years as a full time principal I feel more part of a team now than I did in 8 years in my old practice.”
Dr Larry Day 2010

'" ...have really enjoyed working with Pallant – you have made my life very easy as a locum! I would definitely recommend this way of working to other locums – a fantastic idea. Thank you for all you help and support – I am very grateful!'"
Dr Richard Try 2009

"Joining Pallant made my transition from the highly supported environment of a GP registrar, to the daunting one of a locum, simple; it removed a great deal of worry and essentially all the administrative hassle. I was keen to avoid the pitfall of professional and social isolation that can accompany being a locum, and the excellent reputation of Pallant to do this was well founded. The benefits of meeting regularly with GPs working in the same environment, to discuss the problems we all face and to be part of deciding how the Chambers run, cannot be overstated.

I really enjoyed the administrative and IT support and levels of communication within the Chambers, as well as the sense of belonging to a professional organisation – and not a detached faceless one, but one that offers a more personal involvement.

I would highly recommend Pallant to anyone who wants the freedom of locuming whilst being offered plenty of opportunity to maintain their professional standing and development."
Dr Alex Charkin 2010
 

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