Doctors Salaries

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
09/10/2008 11:41

The Commons' Public Accounts Committee report found that Family doctors in England are working less, but paid more. It also pointed out that pay for GP partners had shot up by 58% to £114,000 a year, although much smaller rises had been seen for salaried GPs and nurses.



Is it time now to put a 'cap' on Doctors Salaries?

jakki



Joined: 23/10/2007
Posts: 865

Message Posted:
09/10/2008 12:28

They do not earn £114,000. - they earn a lot more!!!!!

Chessman


Joined: 13/05/2008
Posts: 486

Message Posted:
09/10/2008 12:31

jakki. They 'earn' a lot less!

jakki



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Posts: 865

Message Posted:
09/10/2008 12:37

Not the doctors I know (my personal friends)

Chessman


Joined: 13/05/2008
Posts: 486

Message Posted:
09/10/2008 12:42

jakki.



Sorry, it was my attempt at being humorous/sarcastic. I meant, they may be paid it but they don't 'earn' it!

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
09/10/2008 12:50

Obviously Doctors in the private sector earn quite a lot more, however I am referring to GP's.

jakki



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Posts: 865

Message Posted:
09/10/2008 13:41

Sorry Chessman - I was just out driving when I had the thought that perhaps you were being 'sarcastic' !!



No1Doyen - sorry to go on but my GP friends do actualy make a lot more money.

No1Doyen


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Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
09/10/2008 13:45

Back to the original question.



Is it time now to put a 'cap' on Doctors Salaries?

ilovecyprus


Joined: 08/05/2007
Posts: 2880

Message Posted:
09/10/2008 13:50

GP's do indeed earn a substantial wage and are given more status in our society than is due. (Just my opinion). I met a GP who was looking to buy a property in Regents park. I bet many professionals can't do that.



One of my best friends is a GP. He openly admits to me that he is unable to sufficiently help many of his patients. Most people visiting a GP (70% has been cited ) are suffering from psychosomatic conditions expressed as anxiety and stress. This is probably the output of the other thread on this forum 'What is happening in the UK?'



In doubt GP's just label symptomns as a virus. That keeps it simple

ilovecyprus


Joined: 08/05/2007
Posts: 2880

Message Posted:
09/10/2008 14:01

Hi Bill



In answer to your question - Yes

cyprusishome


Joined: 31/03/2007
Posts: 2381

Message Posted:
09/10/2008 16:45

Problem with current doctors salaries was brought about by a big review by the current government several years ago.



If I remember correctly, Blair and co said doctors where earning too much especially when they did out of hours calls. So they brought in the call centres from where locum doctors are dispatched to see the patients out of hours. Then a bonus scheme was to operate to ensure GP's etc did not loose too much.



Problem is the treasury team (erm, one G. Brown Esq in charge) got there sums wrong. So doctors are now able to earn more than before. So if Brown strarts to tinker with pay again he better get it right.

tinker


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 156

Message Posted:
09/10/2008 18:41

Compaired to footballers playing for M.U. Chelsea... etc... On £140000 a week doctors are paid a pittance...



tinker

mountbatten


Joined: 12/04/2008
Posts: 102

Message Posted:
09/10/2008 18:54

Tinker,

You cannot compare footballers,actors etc

tinker


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 156

Message Posted:
09/10/2008 19:33

Why not ... They are wage earning or would you not call it that ..



Tinker

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
09/10/2008 19:45

"Is it time now to put a 'cap' on Doctors Salaries? "



Maybe a Dutch Cap... after all they've been f*cking us for years

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
09/10/2008 19:48

I work as a medical secretary in a GP practice. As far as I am aware, the current arrangements for GP salaries (the practice for paying them more for doing less hours, call outs, etc.) is under review and in fact surgeries have to open for longer hours, but with no extra money, to try and "claw back" some of the money they are currently being paid. I may, of course, be completely wrong about this - us ordinary workers don't get told much.

Incidentally, wholeheartedly agree with Tinker - footballers are paid ludicrous amounts of money and why can't doctors be compared when it comes to talking about money?

J

tinker


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 156

Message Posted:
09/10/2008 20:21

Groucho



Go & see a fooballer when you are ill...



tinker

ilovecyprus


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Posts: 2880

Message Posted:
09/10/2008 23:22

Couldn't agree more footballers are incredibly overpaid. There wages are insulting. I can say this even though it was my first ever profession.

eager


Joined: 23/02/2007
Posts: 1272

Message Posted:
09/10/2008 23:48

Nobody could compare Doctors and footballers in the same sentence. Doctors train for 5 years and do a fantastic worthwhile job, Footballers on the other hand are a bunch of vastly overpaid pansies.

mitsi


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 345

Message Posted:
10/10/2008 09:29

Yes, footballers are paid ridiculous amounts of money but that's a rflection of our society, we obviously value them more than we do Doctors. However, Nuerse earn a pittance compared to Doctors and are not held in anything like the esteem, even though we do a lot of their work for them.

PtePike



Joined: 20/05/2008
Posts: 2334

Message Posted:
10/10/2008 12:21

Msg 18,



You must have taken a few bad headers.

ilovecyprus


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Posts: 2880

Message Posted:
10/10/2008 12:58

Does it show that much PP