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Dr Helen Sanderson's husband and daughters face losing their home because she passed away on Christmas Eve after taking the day off. - Daily Mirror
It's hard to drag the facts out of the story but it seems she left a full time GP position to become a locum, it reads like locums are still covered by death in service cover but not between contracts:
The death in service guidance from NHS Pensions Authority explains that should a locum GP find themselves in between contracts - even if it is just for a matter of hours - they will not be eligible for a death in service payment if they die.
While I have every sympathy for her family it reads to me that she went contracting and didn't arrange sufficient insurance.
Dr Helen Sanderson's husband and daughters face losing their home because she passed away on Christmas Eve after taking the day off. - Daily Mirror
It's hard to drag the facts out of the story but it seems she left a full time GP position to become a locum, it reads like locums are still covered by death in service cover but not between contracts:
The death in service guidance from NHS Pensions Authority explains that should a locum GP find themselves in between contracts - even if it is just for a matter of hours - they will not be eligible for a death in service payment if they die.
While I have every sympathy for her family it reads to me that she went contracting and didn't arrange sufficient insurance.
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