How much do GP's actually earn???!!!

[Frank E]

Drat! an ex is a GP. 100kpa?
**goes to find her contact details**

[Frank E]

hello,

i know its very varied but what actually happens about being paid as a GP? i know there are locum and salaried positions which are paid differently but this 'partner' business is very confusing so i was hoping a couple of queries could be dealth with?

1. do you 'buy' into the practice for the share thats available, so you take out a mortgage or something and then when you want to leave you flog it to the next partner coming in and reap any profits from the increase in value of the practice?

2. how much, typically do you get paid? my last GP told me he got paid about £78,000 a year but out of that he has to pay a share for all the staff and the rates on the building etc etc

3. a GP reg told me this is rubbish and the figure he quoted is likely to be his gross income - who's right?

4. also, finally (phew!) what would you do? train as a shrink and move to the US, train as a GP and stay here or train as a GP and flit to OZ.

cheers

steve
med student (soon, hopefully!)

1 I understand from a friend that for her to go into general practice she would have had to buy into a practice. (so she's a psychiatry SPr)

2 My Dad's friend's daughter was paid around that ballpark quite a few years ago and she wasn;t qualified that long. It may have been a dispensing practice she was at though as it is quite rural.

3 Don't know.

[Frank E]

Someone mentioned expenses. What for and how much?
Expenses of running one's consultation room e.g. consumables...?
Individual expenses and what for instruments, motoring...?

Soome GPs seem awfully frugal in their choice of instrumentation when they are on such good pay.

Heh, I was in for forceps and scissors for my first aid kit and looking at their diag sets. I got speaking to an ENT Doc in a medical supplies shop in London who was humming and hahing over spending £10 on an Otoscope for out of hospital use. Heavens sake he's on more than a tradesperson and being so grippy over what's his first line diagnostic insrument. Tradespeople generally invest more in their tools and instrumentation when they are on less than comfortable pay.

[markyc]

For those interested here is an article from 1999, you could do a comparison to todays wages and see if its paid off!

BBC News | NHS pay 99 | The GP pay system

[mattard]

What about two implants in the price of 2000 pounds and 1200 for the same thing in Poland or 3 - unit bridge for 450 and 2200 in the Uk? Not surprising many people fly abroad for exmaple these prices , the lower ones are offered by dentalpoland.com. With the whole package such as the flight and the hotel is is a great bargain. I do not understand UK prices...The methods are the same...

Why is getting treatment in Poland the only thing you talk about?? 7 posts and 7 promotions on going to Poland. Now you have even included a website...

[Frank E]

I can write what I want , I am not promoting anything , just expressing my happiness over saving some money and being treated by cheaper doctors in that clinic. That's it...

Are you studying, training towards or aiming at general practice?