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Ben talks to the third of our GPs working in locum chambers. Charlotte Hattersley has managed to develop the ideal life – a portfolio career in the English Lake District. She tells Ben how she has achieved this, how GP locum chambers have helped and how the common perception of locums is all wrong.

Show Notes

Charlotte explains her career as a partner and then as a locum (1mins 4secs)

Charlotte moves to the Lakes to improve her quality of life (1min 52secs)

The demands of partnership become too much – working as a locum (2mins 44secs)

A portfolio career (3mins 35secs)

GP locum chambers in Yorkshire help Charlotte out (4mins 14secs)

Setting up Cumbria locum chambers (4mins 48secs)

Being a locum is ideal for its flexibility (5mins 09secs)

Why not continue as a partner? (5mins 44secs)

The difference that a chambers makes (7mins 16secs)

The support of the chambers (8mins 08secs)

The benefits for practices (8mins 55secs)

Attracting locums to an area (10mins 12secs)

Partnership is so unattractive (11mins 24secs)

Establishing further chambers (12mins 30secs)

Using locums is not “bad” (14mins 07secs)

The negative perception of locums is unfair (15mins 03secs)