‘Do not do it!’: GP on £80,000 a yr complains about her job and the way a lot work she has to do

A GP incomes greater than £80,000 a yr has claimed she just isn’t pretty paid for the position and warned aspiring docs towards the occupation. 

Whereas the London-based GP stated she ‘enjoys’ her job, she complained that it’s ‘laborious work’, and claimed she is requested to do greater than what she’s paid for. 

In a now-viral TikTok video, Aydan Alsaad, recognized on-line for his ‘Pay Transparency’ movies, stopped the GP on the road to ask her what her job was. 

It comes as senior medics walked out of hospitals throughout England this week as a part of a 48-hour strike and as junior docs and consultants participated of their first joint strike within the well being service’s 75-year historical past. 

In a now-viral TikTok video, the GP claimed she is not pretty paid for the position 

Within the interview, which occurred in London, the lady stated she ‘enjoys’ her job, however  described it as a number of ‘laborious work’

Responding to the TikToker’s query, the lady stated she had been a GP for eight years and revealed she will be able to make something between £80,000 and £90,000 per yr. 

When requested if she is paid pretty, the GP rapidly responded with ‘No’, explaining that she is requested to do a number of work. 

She stated: ‘I believe we’re requested to do much more for not essentially the affected person simply admin which takes much more time.’

Responding to the TikToker’s query: ‘What recommendation would you give to anybody who needs to be a GP,’ the lady stated: ‘Do not do it,’ and suggested that they undertake ‘every other occupation’.

She defined: ‘It is a laborious job if you wish to do it for a rewarding job and a trip then by all means do it however do not do it for every other causes.’

Whereas she added she enjoys her position, she stated: ‘However I am too far down the tunnel to take the flip again.’

‘I do take pleasure in my job. I am actually blissful doing what I am doing nevertheless it’s laborious work,’ she stated. 

The newest NHS data estimating the earnings and bills of GPs in 2021-22 discovered that the typical earnings for contractor GPs stood at £153,400 for contractor GPs and £118,100 for mixed (contractor and salaried GPs). 

In the meantime the typical pay for salaried GPs was £68,00. That is up from £64,900 in 2020/21 and £63,600 in 2019/20.

In a report by the Organisation for Financial Co-operation and Growth (OECD) from December 2020, it was discovered salaried GPs earn 180 per cent above the nationwide common wage. 

Because it was posted, the video has been considered greater than 1.5million occasions and has raked in hundreds of feedback from TikTokers. 

In response to information from The Health Foundation, GPs present a decrease share of their appointments nose to nose in contrast with different affected person care employees normally apply – with simply 61 per cent of appointments in July 2023 going down face-to-face. 

Dennis Reed, director of Silver Voices, which campaigns for aged Britons, described the rise in GP earnings as ‘eye-watering’ and stated sufferers ought to anticipate a greater service for the ‘enormous’ quantity companions are pocketing. 

He told MailOnline: ‘GPs are actually receiving enormous salaries from the NHS they usually can nonetheless do non-public work on the aspect.

‘The least we will anticipate is that they do extra to return the variety of face-to-face appointments to pre-pandemic ranges.’