TY - JOUR T1 - What's a GP worth? JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 568 LP - 568 VL - 54 IS - 504 AU - Dougal Jeffries Y1 - 2004/07/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/54/504/568.abstract N2 - What should a GP's income be? It's a question that's been bothering me recently for three reasons. First, by reading Polly Toynbee's excellent book, Hard Work, which explores the lives of those on the minimum wage, I have been forced to confront and question my own income and lifestyle. Second, post new contract, our practice is negotiating with the PCT over out-of-hours cover, from which, being an island practice, there is no escape. The local LMC has suggested that we should cost our time at some more or less arbitrary figure — let's say £50/hour — and multiply this by the number of hours to be covered, charging extra for bank holidays. The sum arrived at is in the region of £230 000 — to be shared between two doctors in the four winter months and three for the rest of the year. Not bad as a bonus to the day job. Finally, … ER -