£380,000? Does the Daily Mail not understand how GPs are paid?

By , Tuesday, 4 August 2009, 3 Comments
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You may have read today’s Daily Mail splash headlined ‘The GP earning £380,000 a year’.


The Freedom of Information Act investigation of GP pay in 22 PCTs explains: ‘The highest-paid of all was a GP in North-East Essex PCT, who earned £380,394. The trust, covering 40 surgeries in the Colchester area, would not name the doctor or say whether the figure included outgoings.’


An earlier paragraph in the story even says: ‘In some cases the figures include cash GPs have to pay out for staff salaries and rents.’ Err, yes. GPs run small businesses. Should we be publicising Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre’s pay and inflating it so it includes the pay of all his staff? Perhaps we should put that on the cover of the next edition of GP?


A BMA tweet this morning puts it all rather succintly into perspective and I quote:


‘Daily Mail deliberately misunderstanding the difference between practice income and pay. How can this be front page news http://bit.ly/1voP7


How indeed?


 

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  • john Priestman

    >>Should we be publicising Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre’s pay and inflating it so it includes the pay of all his staff? Perhaps we should put that on the cover of the next edition of GP?<<

    Great! Do it.

  • Neil Durham

    Paul Dacre received a £1.6 million salary in 2008, according to The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/15/daily-mail-editor-paul-dacre-pay
    If we inflated this sum by the wages of his staff and the costs of running the Daily Mail (as the DM did for GPs), the sum would be a completely astronomical one.

  • amjed munir

    I sometimes feel like the musicians on the titanic
    Yes the ship is sinking
    but let’s play on regardless
    Let’s continue to provide high quality care and what is best for our patients
    If anyone else wants to bypass and refuse a referral than shame on them
    Funny how they are never there and so quite when things hit the fan isn’t it?
    Funny isn’t it how local antibiotic policy is not questioned when someone who should have recieved antibiotics goes on to develop a complication?
    I FOR ONE WILL CONTINUE MAKING SURE I PROVIDE THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE LEVEL OF CARE
    If anyone has an issue then I always request they put it in writing, as it will make interesting reading should EXTERNAL INTERFERENCE lead to an adverse outcome

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