PRHO Pay

[Nathaniel]

Just out of curiosity was wondering how much you can expect to earn as a PRHO? Are there any PRHO's out there that can tell me how much they earn?

[claudia]

Not a PRHO but I think it's usually between £25K and £30K, depending on banding. I think almost everyone is now EWT compliant on paper so it'll be hard to find the £36K jobs which existed at the start of the whole banding thing - not that anyone would want to work those sort of hours.

The great thing about being a doctor is the pay rises every year until you've been a consultant for 5 years. Don't know how it works for GPs though..

[DrPie]

With the new contract, GPs are raking it in. A friend of a PRHO i worked with was a SpR level equivalent in general practise (in the manchester- ish area she was earning £130,000.....

Its becoming the case now that GPs are making more money than NHS consultants- even those that do a bit of private work on the side

[rjm]

Not a PRHO but I think it's usually between £25K and £30K, depending on banding. I think almost everyone is now EWT compliant on paper so it'll be hard to find the £36K jobs which existed at the start of the whole banding thing - not that anyone would want to work those sort of hours.

The great thing about being a doctor is the pay rises every year until you've been a consultant for 5 years. Don't know how it works for GPs though..

Actually its not unusual to take a pay cut between SpR and Consultant as the out-of-hours work decreases.

[claudia]

Actually its not unusual to take a pay cut between SpR and Consultant as the out-of-hours work decreases.

Not on the new consultant contract... I don't imagine there are many SpRs in this country who earn over 72K.

[PBLsucks]

Just out of curiosity was wondering how much you can expect to earn as a PRHO? Are there any PRHO's out there that can tell me how much they earn?

I too would like to know the answer to that question, if any PRHOs would like to let us in on how much their typical pay is and how much they take home, I would be grateful.

[rjm]

between £28000 and £38000 depending on banding. If earning about £32 then take home is about £2000/month

[Mergatroyd]

Too much it would seem.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../nhealth07.xml

[rjm]

I read the original article and was wondering what he was talking about.

If you consider the five or six years of unpaid training which nurses/teachers/social workers etc dont have and the extra 2-3 years of working that they have on us, that initial salary will make up for all that debt we incur!

[Mergatroyd]

A better argument would perhaps have been pay nurses more rather than pay doctors less. I reckon they more than earn their money. It sounds to me like he might be experiencing a bit of an anticlimax now he's qualified.

If you do a Nursing degree at some universities you do actually effectively have 4 years unpaid training. I'm on one at the moment (and rapidly regretting it which is why I've started lurking here ) and when on placement we technically work as free nurses, with our own patients. A pretty good deal for the NHS.

No tuition fees is a bonus though I must admit