Money matters
Posted: Tuesday, 02 May 2006 |
Comments
Good lord you can get a half decent footballer for that sort of money!
calumannabel from Training fast to be a GP
At 30K a month - in five months you could have enough to open a bed and breakfast in Back!
Dr Hamish Snoddy from Oliver's Brae Health Centre Lewis
These doctors have to go the distance against one on the mainland just think of the weather and the lack of street lights in areas and the time it will take them to carry out a home call. I think they are worth the money
Margaret Todd Sweeney from Grangemouth near Falkirk
Just to put GP salary into context. GP's are consultant equivalent yet until the new contract in 2004 they were getting half the normal salary of an NHS consultant despite covering their own out of hours. Being a GP is not a prestigous or well regarded career choice amongst the younger (I am 28) medical professionals therefore GP recruitment and retention hit crisis levels. If you look back in 2003 it was taking over a year sometimes to fill posts even in desirable geographic locations. Why should the average GP salary who works average hours not be the same as an average NHS consultant salary? But you are not talking about an average GP salary as the hours are 24/7. I think that is 拢35 pounds an hour. (my husband earns that as a locum anaesthetic registrar) Down here 拢300 000 would get you a GP for day and night cover during the week, night cover at weekends but you would have to find a bit extra to cover daytime weekends - you have got a bargain!! How many times do you think a dermatology consultant would get called out when they are on call? The call out frequency does not affect their salary! If you look at the new 'choose and book' system which seems to be an IT and admin disaster - how many million did that cost? I think you'll find a lot of deficit hidden there. And in paying trusts to meet their 4 hour A&E targets, and paying surgeons and anaesthetists to come in at weekends for extra operations to meet waiting list initiatives (nice little earner) and...... I could go on!
happy doc (not a GP though!) from lake district
I have been in Lewis since late 2004 and am observing life on this fascinating island from an outsider's perspective. I look out at the lighthouse every day - as it looks out over the island and the sea. 
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