BLANK TEMPLATE — complete and check for your practice before use.
This is an operational planning aid, not a completed induction or a clinical policy.
Keep patient information, passwords, smartcard PINs and door codes out of the pack.

LOCUM INDUCTION PACK

[Practice name]: what you need to know for a locum session for GPs, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and practice nurses.

1. GETTING HERE

  Address: [To add]
  Phone for clinicians: [To add]
  Opening hours: [To add]
  When you arrive: [To add]
  Parking and travel: [To add]

2. WHO TO CONTACT

  Practice manager: [To add]
  Clinical advice during the session: [To add]
  Safeguarding lead (adults): [To add]
  Safeguarding lead (children): [To add]
  IT and system access: [To add]
  Reception or operations lead: [To add]

3. SYSTEMS AND LOGINS

  Clinical system: [To add]
  Logins and smartcards: [To add]
  Letters and documents: [To add]
  Requesting tests: [To add]
  Referrals: [To add]
  Phone, video and online consultations: [To add]
  Remote working: [To add]
Passwords, smartcard PINs and door codes are given in person on the day. They are never written in this pack.

4. YOUR SESSION

  Appointments: [To add]
  Home visits: [To add]
  Results and correspondence: [To add]
  Prescription requests: [To add]
  Duty and triage: [To add]

5. PRESCRIBING AND MEDICINES

  Formulary and prescribing guidance: [To add]
  Controlled drugs: [To add]
  For practice nurses: [To add]
  For pharmacists and pharmacy technicians: [To add]

6. EMERGENCIES AND SAFETY

  Defibrillator, oxygen and emergency drugs: [To add]
  Raising the alarm: [To add]
  Fire procedure: [To add]
  Chaperones: [To add]
  Infection control and sharps: [To add]
  Reporting incidents: [To add]

7. SAFEGUARDING

  How to raise a concern: [To add]
If a child or adult is in immediate danger, call 999 first, then tell the safeguarding lead the same day.

8. LOCAL SERVICES

  - [Add urgent care, mental health crisis, out-of-hours and community services, one per line]

9. AT THE END OF THE SESSION

  Handover: [To add]
  Before you leave: [To add]
  Invoices and pension forms: [To add]

Created with the free locum induction pack builder at findalocum.co.uk. Review this pack at least every six months, and whenever contacts or systems change.