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Originally Posted by jfman
You don’t need to know - if you offer higher wages and better terms and conditions it stands to reason you’ll get more applicants.
Now we need to reduce the pay and working conditions of GPs?
Utterly astonishing.
Women back to the kitchens?
What a truly progressive future you’ve outlined here.
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Still doesn't answer the question of which other high paying jobs they are moving into.
It is widely acknowledged that Labour was too generous with the new GP contracts. How many other people can afford at such a relatively young age(eg in their 40s) to work part-time and maintain their standard of living.
Link from 2007.
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Family doctors negotiating last year's pay contract were stunned to be offered such a lucrative deal, it has been revealed.
GP leaders could not believe their luck when ministers told them they would be able to opt out of working evenings and weekends.
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Overall the contract, which started in 2004, has seen pay increase by 60 per cent in three years to more than £100,000.
Health experts said the comments showed that doctors were being paid too much for too little work, while opposition parties lambasted government "incompetence".
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I was just pointing out that actual experience and concerns of somebody involved in training doctors at the time, at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.
What proportion of the part-time GPs are female?
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The King's Fund reported only 22 per cent planned to work full time as a GP within a year of completing their training.
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Questioned about their long-term career goals by the King's Fund, just one in 20 trainees intended to be working full-time as a GP ten years after finishing training.
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How is that meant to help with GP shortages?
Becoming a nurse(or doctor) shouldn't be driven purely by money or status. That would attract the wrong people.