Family doctors on holiday in Cornwall are being asked to pick up shifts at GPs to help cope with a staff shortage.
Holidaying doctors are being offered locum shifts to help surgeries that are short of GPs.
The three Roseland Surgeries took to social media to ask visiting doctors to take up their offer of paid shifts and 'help pay for the extortionate cost of the hols'.
Practice manager Nicola Davies said she had tried to fill the shifts without success before posting a message on Twitter.
She wrote: "If you're a GP coming down to Cornwall on holiday, and you fancy a locum session or two (to help pay the extortionate costs if the hols) please give me a shout...you might like what you see."
The team normally has four doctors based on the Roseland peninsula but has been hit after one GP relocated and another resigned in January.
With the remaining doctors wanting their own August breaks, Ms Davies admitted they were 'struggling to fill the sessions left'.
There is a shortage of locums in Cornwall and 'the geography of where we are" has also caused a headache.
Ms Davies said: "I thought maybe there's somebody who, if they're here, might want to earn a bit for their AirBnB, their B&B or their holiday cottage.
"So I got the best photo of the village and posted it."
And there has been a good reaction to her post with one woman saying: "My husband is a GP - please tell me how to book a shift."
Alun Jones replied: "GP partner for 18 years - anything needed in September?"
