Locum insurance claims prove that healthcare professionals get sick too!

Practice Cover, which specialises in cover for healthcare professionals, has paid out an average of £23,080 for sickness and accident claims.

The company provides locum insurance primarily for GPs and dentists, and has paid out for a range of claims from bunions and slipped discs to motorbike crashes and jury service.

Lynda Cox, who set up Practice Cover in 2009 in the niche area of locum and overheads insurance for GPs, dentists, vets, opticians and allied healthcare professionals, sees claims as justification that the insurance is a modern-day necessity for healthcare practices.