Long working hours, demanding patients, unpleasant outcomes - there are lots of things that may cause us to feel sympathy for GPs but falling incomes is unlikely to be one. Evidence submitted to the most recent annual pay review for general practitioners (GPs) by NHS England found the number of family doctors earning more than £100,000 a year has quadrupled in less than a decade. Official documents show that some 16,000 GPs are being paid six-figure sums, including 600 earning £200,000 plus. And yet funding upheaval has been a bitter pill for many of the UK's 260,000 GPs at a time when the ageing population of GPs prepares for a huge brain drain over the next few years and the number of new entrants into general practice dwindles to an all-time low.
展开▼
