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What salaries do you guys generally get paid anually? To GP's in the UK only. Thanks
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Re: Salary
posted at 12/4/2012 5:26 PM BST
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Re: GP salaries
posted at 13/4/2012 9:55 AM BST
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Yep you're right skyesteve, in 2009-10 the average salary for a GP partner in Scotland was £89,500 compared with £109,400 in England, ouch. Salaries have been creeping up in Scotland though - in 2008-9 Scottish GPs were getting only £86,500 - but creeping down in England. |
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Re: GP salaries
posted at 13/4/2012 10:41 AM BST
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Hi Helen - Scottish average may be creeping up but in my own practice it is falling and has done so consistently since 2006-07. We are, of course, stlll well-paid by anyone's standards but I think we are worth it. The average cost of providing complete primary care services in my practice is about £170 per patient per annum. Try finding any private health insurance that would give you complete primary care for that kind of premium. By definition, doctors are some of the brightest, most educated members of society. They could have chosen to be lawyers, bankers, architects, engineers or accountants and in all of these professions their incomes would have been substantially higher. The old "Dr Findlay" model has long gone. People deserve to get the best primary care service in the world and, in my opinion, in Scotland they do. But by the same token the people providing that service should be well-paid for doing so. |
