Everything You Need To Know About Pharmacist Locum Insurance

Being a locum pharmacist in the UK is a pretty good job. According to Chemist & Druggist, UK-based locum pharmacists earned £22.34 per hour on average in 2020 (https://www.chemistanddruggist.co.uk/). That is near enough £900 a week for a five-day week, or about £47,000 a year. Nice work if you can get it.

Locum Pharmacists Are Not Cheap

If you are in the business of operating a pharmacy, one of the issues that you have to deal with is that of staff being away from work. This can be for one of several reasons, such as holidays, sickness, accident, time off caring for a family member who is unwell, maternity or paternity benefit, getting stuck overseas (especially in view of the constant changing of traffic light colours by the government), having to self-isolate in a hotel for ten days after returning from abroad, and more.

Locum Insurance For A Pharmacy

When you run a pharmacy, you are in the front line, very often, as regards patients who have prescriptions from their doctor. They may go from one year to the next without seeing their doctor if they suffer from no fresh health issues, and with Covid-19 it means that many patients have not seen a doctor for two years or more, since most pharmacies now arrange to collect repeat prescriptions from the GP’s surgery in any case.