PUBLICATION OF EARNINGS

It is a contractual requirement for practices to publish their mean average earnings for 2016/17. Practices must;

• Publish details on their website by 31 March 2018.

The calculation excludes certain types of income and the rules are complex and open to interpretation.

Full time GP’s are defined in the guidance as working eight sessions or more. The number of GP’s includes salaried GP’s and locums who worked full or part time for 6 months or more.

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 the practice, and should not be used to form any judgement about GP earnings, nor to make any comparison with any other practice.

The average pay for GPs working in Parbold Surgery in the last financial year was £56,878             before tax and National Insurance. This is for 2 full time GPs, 4 part time GPs and 0 locum GPs who worked in the practice for more than six months.