1. A locum consultant failed to spot the result of her earlier test and arranged for a totally unnecessary exploratory operation.

2. It's better than getting a locum in - they cost the earth and sometimes do more harm than good.

3. The family believe that it was a locum doctor at their local hospital in Hereford who reported the case to the child protection unit after Hannah had been taken home by her parents.

4. In Ghosh, the accused, a surgeon acting as a locum in a hospital, claimed fees for performing operations.

5. Not that Joanna was like that when she did a locum in the practice where we met.

6. But then I asked for just one spell of six months as a locum in some exotic place.