This figure excludes locums, and for general practice it includes only principals providing full general medical services.
Many of these were already in operation through the temporary appointment of locum consultants.
Detailed analysis are not available, but some posts would be temporarily filled by locums and some newly established posts would be in process of filling.
I must make it clear that the doctor concerned was not a pensions doctor but a locum.
In the meantime, the health authority hopes to cover the consultant vacancy with a locum.
If not, he must pay a locum if he is to have any time off at all.
Such expenses include interpreters' fees, essential child care costs and expenses incurred in securing locum cover.
No assessment has been made of agencies which provide locums for temporary employment in hospital trusts.
