NHS: Staff
(asked on 16th March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the average cost to the NHS of employing one (a) nurse, (b) midwife, (c) doctor and (d) GP.
This information is recorded in the following table:
| Average Costs per Full-Time Equivalent |
Qualified nurse, midwife or health visitor | £42,161 |
Midwife | £45,936 |
All non-locum hospital and community health services (HCHS) doctors | £95,284 |
Consultants | £144,967 |
Registrars | £64,664 |
Other doctors in training | £42,910 |
General practitioner (GP) Partners | £105,100 |
Salaried GPs | £56,600 |
Notes:
Figures for nurses, midwives, consultants, registrars and other doctors in training relate to 2013/14. Separate figures for qualified nurses are not available. Costs include employer national insurance and pension contributions but not costs such as recruitment and training which are not collected centrally.
The data for GP partners and salaried GPs relates to 2012/13. GPs are not employees of the National Health Service. The average earnings of GP partners and salaried GPs are shown after expenses but before tax.
The figures for HCHS staff and GPs are not directly comparable as GP partners do not pay employer national insurance contributions and their earnings are exclusive of employer pension contributions. The earnings of salaried GPs are exclusive of both employer pension and national insurance contributions.