(Time to read: 5 minutes) By Robert Campbell Continuing our look at Practice Manager pay, this time we’re turning our attention to pay rises. Having looked at the results of the Gender Pay Gap Survey, I have turned to the simpler ‘pay gap’ between practices of the same or similar size. Clearly ‘pay gaps’ might…

An extra £11 million is to be put into general practice in Wales next year as part of a contract deal delivering a 1% pay increase. Practices are also being allowed a 1.4% increase for general expenses as part of the deal. And it includes some £2.7 million towards the costs of general indemnity. As…

We all know how stressful pay and payroll can be. Who can blame their staff if they give their instant feedback when problems or changes affect them negatively? After all, they are working hard and have an expectation that there will be money at the end of the month. If payroll is late, or overtime…

I am a partner (I’m not really, but for this exercise, just bear with me). And because I am not really a partner, I am going to (not really) be the Senior Partner. And I am going to be slim, handsome and young – just because I can be, even if it is for only…

Another funding storm is on the horizon with the recently announced rise in national practice contract funding for England. For all the people working in general practice, a rise is a rise, but when it amounts to about 2% in the context of an overstretched service, in which some doctors working in other parts of…

Thousands of staff in general practice may not get a pay rise because of allocation formulas, GP and nursing representatives have warned. Staff have been promised a 6% pay increase – and a 6% increase in funding allocations to practices is due next month. However, the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Nursing…

GP leaders have accused NHS England of mismanagement over repeated changes to the autumn vaccination programme. The British Medical Association yesterday called for an investigation into the problems with the programme. NHS England has said it had to change the programme because of emerging information about the risks from flu and new COVID variants. GPs…