The National Association of Sessional GPs (NASGP) state that there are around 21,100 licensed GPs in England who are not partners or salaried GPs, which represents a 30% increase - 5,000 on figures from five years ago. This suggests that more GPs are taking on locum shifts. What the report doesn't say is how many of those GPs are migrants.
As of December 2023, there were 37,068 (including trainees) fully qualified GPs working in the NHS in England.
That indicates that there are far more locums than there are GP partners or salaried GPs and due to the cost-of-living crisis and allocation of funding for other services, (as mentioned in the Pulse Today article), many of the qualified GPs are still finding it difficult to find locum work in GP practices. Has can be viewed in the comments section of the article.
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