Protecting Your Practice
- Specialist locum & surgery insurance designed for medical professionals
- Tailored protection – pay only for what you need
- Internal claims handling, ensuring fast response times

GP
Insurance
Running a GP practice comes with challenges unlike any other. Rising patient demand and limited resources can leave little time to think about insurance, that’s where we step in.
Dentist
Insurance
We understand that every dental practice is unique. Whether you’re running a private practice or working within the NHS with a UDA commitment, your insurance requirements will differ.
Vet
Insurance
Running a veterinary practice brings unique challenges, with the responsibility of caring for animals and their owners. We know insurance isn’t always top of your to-do list, that’s where we step in.
Practice Cover Policies
We specialise in providing tailored surgery insurance for GPs, dentists, vets, and other healthcare professionals. Our policies are designed to protect every aspect of your practice including buildings, medical equipment, income, and legal liabilities against unexpected risks. Access extensive surgery insurance online.
Insurance for Your Surgery
Employers’ Liability
Up to £10 million with no excess
Public & Products Liability
Up to £10 million with no excess
Stock Protection
Including refrigerated drugs and vaccines
Practice Cover Locum Insurance is designed to cover costs that will be incurred if a practitioner is unexpectedly unable to work. If you’re taking out cover for your practice, we’ll ask you how much money you would need on a weekly basis for each of the colleagues and members of staff you’d like to insure.
Locum Insurance Cover
No Need to Hire a Locum
Or provide receipts to make a sickness claim
Continuity of Cover
We tell you what we will do!
Benefit Period
Choose any period up to 52 weeks
Practice Cover Reviews
Specialists in Practice Cover
Practice Cover is the UK’s specialist insurance provider dedicated to meeting the unique needs of medical and business professionals. Headquartered in Southampton and authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, we proudly deliver bespoke Locum Insurance, Surgery Insurance, and income absence protection to GPs, dentists, vets, opticians, allied health professionals, solicitors, and architects.
Practice Cover News
Insurance for dentists that will keep the practice running
I’ve just heard about a dentist who won’t go on holiday because it ‘costs’ him around £3,000 a week in lost income. He sends his family off for a few weeks and just carries on working. Let’s save the ‘quality of life’ discussion for another day and look at the…
PRODUCT OF THE WEEK
Our locum insurance is Health Insurance Magazine’s product of the week “We like a lot of what is included in this new product.” Andy Couchman – Health Insurance Magazine Health Insurance Magazine has just chosen Practice Cover locum insurance as their product of…
Bin your insurer
GP practices face financial melt-down As last week’s ‘Pulse’ reveals ‘GP partners in some areas are in such financial difficulty that they have been unable to pay themselves for several months’.GPC deputy chair, Dr Richard Vautrey, is quoted as saying:…
SOUTHAMPTON: free CPD event for practice owners and practice managers
Pop along to hear two short informative talks, with time to converse 1:1 with our speakers.
Which category do you fall into?
Locum insurance ‘roulette’ anyone? Here at Practice Cover, we see everyone from those who are completely unprotected and vulnerable to those who are too loyal to a current provider to notice they’re paying way over-the-odds for cover. Which category do you fall…
Locum insurance premiums frozen at 2010 prices
We know that healthcare professionals face huge and growing financial pressures – that’s why we review our locum insurance premiums regularly to make sure they’re competitive and sustainable. But unlike many locum cover providers, when we…
IFAs
Talk to us about offering Practice Cover financial protection packages to your healthcare clients.
For more information, please call 020 3982 0420 or email enquiries@practicecover.co.uk.