Cash In The Surgery: Doctors’ Healthy Pay
ALL those years of medical school have paid off rather well for GPs, who, according to NHS figures published yesterday, earned £100,170, on average, in 2004-05.
With NHS negotiators underestimating the payments that GPs would be able to claim under the snappily-entitled Quality and Outcomes Framework contract, primary care trusts had to pay them over £300m more than expected in the first year, despite the fact that these family doctors now don’t have to provide care at night or at weekends.
A spokesman for the Department of Health says: “GPs are getting paid more because they are doing more. We invested extra funding in GP services both to improve services and reward GPs.”
No wonder GPs try to hurry you out of the surgery. They need time to count their money.
Posted: 27th, April 2007 | In: Money Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
