IS GENERAL PRACTICE IN TROUBLE? When locums can earn as much as partners, GP is in trouble

摘要

Is general practice in trouble? The answerisyes, and the test is the association between earnings for GP practitioner partners and GP locums.Appleby quotes current average GP gross income as ￡105 000 ({EUR}133 000; $164 800) a year. GP locums can usually earn more than ￡500 a day. Locums carry none of the administrative burdens that GP partners do, so could reasonably do more clinical sessions, say 42 five day weeks a year, which would generate an income of around ￡105 000 perannum.