Thursday, 6 August 2015

Ending pay supplement for GP trainees would be a 'disaster', warns BMA

Ending pay supplement for GP trainees would be a 'disaster', warns BMA


Doctors’ union says scrapping payments may create an even greater shortage of GPs by pushing more trainees into hospital work

The proposed removal of a supplement that boosts the pay of GP trainees would be a “disaster”, exacerbating an existing shortage of family doctors, the British Medical Association has warned.

The doctors’ union said scrapping the supplement, which accounts for 31% of a trainee’s income, would drive more people towards hospital work instead of general practice at a time when there are already concerns about unfilled GP training places and the government is determined to push through seven-day opening of surgeries. Guardian

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