The Locum Doctors Union was formed in 2016 by a group of UK locum doctors who decided to tackle the policy of capping the pay rates for locum doctors, which largely failed around August 2016. But then there was a new development which needed a far more concerted effort to handle. This was the Reformed Intermediaries Legislation popularly known as ‘IR35’ in April 2017 which was a blanket formula affecting the nature of contracting between public bodies and freelancer contractors. LDU has again risen to the challenge, to provide a clear voice of sanity and clarity in a bid to facilitate lawful compliance by all stakeholders in ensuring that every individual freelance locum doctor who has a limited company is given the realistic assessment which ascertains whether they are employees or freelance contractors.