GP Wages

[mh123]

So... news abounds that 'many' GP's now earn 6 figure salaries, and 'some' earn in excess of £250k

Are they worth it?

[Garrett]

What ever there worth more than DJ's.

[PoochJD]

And they're worth far more than any British Football player, too!

[mjn]

How much training does it take to say, "I'll pescribe you some painkillers, and get plenty of rest and/or liquids"

[Mr Cat]

Originally Posted by mjn

Hoe much training does it take to say, "I'll pescribe you some painkillers, and get plenty of rest and/or liquids"

five years and about 20k worth of debt..?

[shahedz]

very strange but as a locum (temporary) a freshly qualified GP can demand up to £100 an hour, a specilist consultant in Neurosurgery for example on the other hand also working in the NHS would struggle to get £65.

when you think about a GP doctor only needs to know basic knowledge in a varierty of feilds, eg peads, dermatology, general Medicine anything complicated gets refferred to a specialist so a relatively young doctor can become one £100 is very steep , when a consultant with decades of experience below his belt in a specialist filed commands much less.

i am not knocking what GPs do and think very highly of them as, members of my family are GPs but i think £100K is way too much!

[pjclark1]

I think you will find your local GP gets about 70k for a 9-5 regular job.
It is the locum GPs that provide the out of hours service that get paid 150K, but that is for night, weekend and holiday cover.
Not really that great a job to do.

[eddidaz]

Looks like one of the hardest jobs in the world to me.

Although a lot of fun if Scrubs is anything to go by

[shahedz]

Originally Posted by pjclark1

I think you will find your local GP gets about 70k for a 9-5 regular job.
It is the locum GPs that provide the out of hours service that get paid 150K, but that is for night, weekend and holiday cover.
Not really that great a job to do.

there are plenty of locum GPs who work morning and afternoon sessions, demanding £100 an hour and even more for out of hours work!

[Jenn]

Depends on the doctor I guess. Mine seems to know less about contraception than I do

[unique]

i suppose if they save peoples lives, then they are worth every penny, or at least to the people who's lives are saved, but then it isn't GPs that save peoples lives is it? it's more ER staff etc and other types of doctors

all that money, PLUS you get loads of female nurses to assist you. can't be bad eh?

[unique]

Originally Posted by Jenn

Depends on the doctor I guess. Mine seems to know less about contraception than I do

*** is contraption?

[PmSonic]

GP's do seem to limit there knowledge to the 'basics' anything more than that & your either sent to a specialist or the hospital.

I'd like to know how much the specialists / consultants / surgions & hospital based doctors earn.. IMHO they're the folks who should be getting the big bucks!

[scouse]

you could argue you though the specialists wouldn't have many patients if the GP's didn't have the required skills to refer to the correct physician...

also GP's have to know a "little" about an awful lot to be able to refer to the correct specialists whereas a specialist can only concentrate on a small portion of the spectrum.

something that hasn't been mentioned is that GP's only get paid a good chunk of their money if targets, that are important to improving nations general health, are met.

edit; i would say though there are some crap gp's out there especially when it comes to mental health and depression, i've seen pretty appalling examples of communication skills which are vital as a doctor

[shahedz]

Originally Posted by pshand

GP's do seem to limit there knowledge to the 'basics' anything more than that & your either sent to a specialist or the hospital.

I'd like to know how much the specialists / consultants / surgions & hospital based doctors earn.. IMHO they're the folks who should be getting the big bucks!

i think, not 100% sure consutlants start at about £62k and go up to £mid 90s in the NHS but they also top up thier pay by working privately a few sessions per week