>> I earned in excess of that yesterday for a shorter day than you!
Good day at the bookies doesn't count ;-)
The figures on NHS staffing are in the right ballpark.
GP numbers are trickier as there is no actual database of numbers, how many sessions each GP works, ethnicity/gender, or even individual earnings.
The data that does exist is largely from workforce surveys that are not universally completed.
The data that does exist (in Scotland) shows GP numbers are slightly lower (FTE) over the past 5 years.
tinyurl.com/yczkm2ho
This is due to more part-time workers (inc me: I do 4 days/week now and intend to cut to 3 in the next 6 months), retirements, and some GPs moving into other fields (academia, appraisal, hospital posts, Board governance and the like), and good old fashioned emigration (Australia/NZ mostly with a few to Canada in my experience).
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