General Practitioners: Income
(asked on 17th July 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2015 to Question 2842, what the average yearly earnings of GPs on (a) General Medical Services, (b) Personal Medical Services and (c) Alternative Provider Medical Services contracts were in (i) England, (ii) London, (iii) the London Borough of Islington and (iv) Islington South and Finsbury constituency in each of the last 10 years.
Some of the requested information is not collected centrally.
The available information is shown in the following tables. Figures are not collected by borough or constituency. Also, figures are not available for general practitioners (GPs) on Alternative Provider Medical Services contracts. When interpreting the figures it is important to note that the nature of GP contracts and their work has also changed over time. Since the start of the new General Medical Services (GMS) contract in 2004/05, there have been some major changes to income, work streams and investment in general practice.
The new GMS contract was fully implemented in 2004/05 (although some features were introduced in 2003/04). Therefore results from these years may not be fully comparable.
Table 1: Mean average gross earnings, GMS contractor GPs, 2003/04 – 2012/13 (£)
| 2003/04 | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | 2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 |
England | 200,407 | 229,593 | 245,440 | 247,261 | 247,480 | 255,100 | 259,100 | 263,500 | 265,500 | 269,800 |
London Strategic Health Authority (SHA) | - | 230,591 | 249,257 | 251,670 | 250,939 | 259,200 | 264,100 | 267,600 | 268,100 | 279,900 |
London NHS England region | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 267,900 | 279,900 |
Table 2: Mean average gross earnings, Personal Medical Services contractor GPs, 2003/04 – 2013/14 (£)
| 2003/04 | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | 2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 |
England | 234,477 | 266,193 | 283,994 | 288,205 | 289,667 | 298,600 | 302,900 | 308,800 | 309,700 | 315,800 |
London SHA | - | 297,993 | 312,765 | 319,675 | 329,426 | 333,600 | 341,300 | 341,900 | 335,200 | 347,200 |
London NHS England region | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 335,200 | 347,200 |
Source: The Health and Social Care Information Centre.
Notes:
The time series in the tables are presented in cash terms of gross earnings, before any expenses are deducted. A hyphen indicates that the information is not available.
Figures are not available for London SHA in 2003/04. NHS England region figures are only available from 2011/12 onwards.
Figures for the 2012/13 financial year are the latest available.
Figures for London SHA 2004/05 and 2005/06 were published as London Government Office Region (GOR) figures. London GOR maps exactly to London SHA.
Figures from 2008/09 onwards are rounded to the nearest £100.