With Analysis Like This…

You’ll never get to the right answer. The Guardian answers reader’s questions. Here’s part of an answer to ‘Are GPs worth £100,000 a year?’

A large proportion of GPs’ earnings is now linked directly to the
quality of care they provide, with payments made for services such as
contraception, vaccinations, and child health and chronic disease
clinics.

Err, no, as the NHS Blog Doctor repeatedly points out, a large proportion of GP’s incomes now come from box ticking.

Which is why ministers expected GPs to invest more of the "windfall"
gains back into their businesses. Surprisingly, GPs are instead
pocketing proportionally more of the money than before.

Ahh, so ministers did indeed make a mistake? As none of them seems to have ever done a real day’s work in their lives, not too surprising that they don’t understand incentives, is it?

2 responses

  1. My GP is a bloody sight more useful to me than Tony bloody Blair, John bloody bloody Prescott, the rest of the bleeding cabinet and all those bleeding White-bloody-hall mandarins what get paid more than 100,000 smackers, so yes, they are, and the rest.

  2. Just wait for the explosion in the numbers of sufferers with conditions that tick those boxes.

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