GP earnings

From April 2016 it is a requirement for practices to publish the mean net earnings of the partners, salaried GPs and any locum who has worked in the practice for over six months. The figure listed below for 2017/18 is before income tax, NI, and employee pension contributions and is for 4 full-time & 2 part-time GPs. This equates to £74210 per anum.

It should be noted that the prescribed method for calculating earnings is potentially misleading because it takes no account of how much time doctors spend working in practice (for example, a doctor working 1/2 day per week counts the same as a full time doctor) and correspondingly practices that have many part time doctors or high locum use will typically calculate a lower figure than a practice with many full time doctors. Consequently, this information should not be used to form any judgement about actual GP earnings or to make any comparison with any other practice.