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This allowance enables single-handed isolated GPs jointly to employ an associate doctor so that they can have time off for leisure and training, in circumstances where continuous duty would otherwise be an intrinsic feature of general medical services.
Associates should normally work in a single locality. In most cases one associate doctor will be employed jointly between two adjacent practices, although the health authority may agree to an associate being employed between three GPs.
An associate must undertake the normal range of general medical services provided by the employing principal, who remains responsible under the terms of service for the associate's acts and omissions.
GPs employing assistants are not eligible for this scheme.
Very few GPs in England can qualify for this allowance.
The eligibility criteria are in Box 8.1.
Box 8.1: Eligibility for the associate allowance
A single-handed GP (or job sharer) must be:
• receiving rural practice payments, or
• sole practitioner(s) on an island, and
• receiving an inducement payment, or
• in a practice more than 10 miles from the nearest practitioner's main surgery or nearest district general hospital
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