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New £8,200 GP trainee pay premium
NHS Employers has announced a new incentive to attract medical graduates to specialise as general practitioners, offering a pay premium of £8,200 annually while on placement, aimed at ensuring the ‘current level of pay is matched in the new system’.
The move is part of a wider strategy to abate the current GP workforce crisis, and is one of a range of measures imposed in the reform of the junior doctor’s contract. The reform follows the British Medical Association’s (BMA’s) claim that the government’s original proposal to cut the training supplement would lead to a 31 per cent pay cut.
The NHS Employers guidance for the final imposed contract stated: “Pay premium will be paid to GP trainees in practice to ensure current levels of pay is matched in the new system.”
However, it added that the premium ‘will only be paid to doctors undertaking general practice placements as part of a general practice training programme (replacing the GP supplement)’ and will ’not be paid to those trainees whilst they are in hospital or other community placements, or to trainees on other programmes undertaking placements in general practice’.
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