About Sessional

Built from 45 years of locum experience.

My father has been a GP for over 45 years. I built version one for him in 2014. He used it privately for a decade before I rebuilt it for everyone else.

Our mission

Run your locum work like a business. Minus the accountant.

Every self-employed clinician, from GPs to pharmacists to paramedics, with the tools to bill, chase, and reconcile their own work.

My father has been a GP for over 45 years. I grew up watching the reality of general practice: the early mornings, the home visits, the paperwork that never ended. When he worked as a locum between organisations, I saw something worse: the admin burden of running your own show with no proper tools.

Pension forms filled in by hand every month. Invoices rebuilt from memory. Rates and terms buried in email chains. Mileage scrawled on the back of envelopes at tax time. Payments chased with polite follow-up emails and hope.

When I looked at what was available to locum healthcare professionals, I was genuinely frustrated. The options were either expensive marketplace platforms that take a cut of every session, or nothing at all.

I'm a software engineer. So in 2014 I built him version one: a single-user tool that lived on his laptop, that he and he alone used to track every session, generate his pension forms, and chase his own invoices. He used it privately for a decade. It worked.

When I looked at what was available to other locum healthcare professionals, I was genuinely frustrated. The options were either expensive marketplace platforms that take a cut of every session, or nothing at all. So I rebuilt my dad's tool from the ground up, opened it to everyone, and shipped it as Sessional.

It has grown into a tool for locum healthcare professionals of every discipline: GPs, pharmacists, nurses, and more. Ten years of running it for one stubborn user shaped how every feature works.

The problem is universal. A locum pharmacist juggling shifts across three pharmacies has the same workflow as a GP covering sessions at five organisations. Track the work, invoice for it, log expenses, stay compliant. The tools should understand that, and now they do.

This is not a marketplace. This is not an agency. This is a professional tool, built for healthcare professionals, by someone who understands what the job actually demands.

What we believe

Built for healthcare, not freelancing

Sessional understands sessions and shifts, not gigs. It knows about NHS pension tiers, HMRC mileage rates, registration bodies (GMC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, GDC) and the difference between a day rate and an hourly rate.

No middleman

When you are ready, publish your profile. Organisations find you in the directory or via your link. They send requests directly. No one takes a cut.

Your data belongs to you

Choose exactly what organisations see. Store documents securely. Export everything as CSV or JSON. Pause or cancel without losing a single record. Encrypted at rest, never sold.

Fair, transparent pricing

Three clear plans. Basic is free forever. Plus at £4.99/mo (launch price until 1 Aug 2026, then £14.99/mo) unlocks the full toolkit. Pro at £24.99/mo adds API access, Xero sync, and advanced reporting. No per-shift fees.

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