not sure what a 9 minute consultation is :-)
We're 10 mins on 'phone and 15 mins face-to-face.
Out Practice contract is worth about £1.2m per year, for about 8500 patients.
For this £1.2m we provide around 500ish normal GP appointments per week and 50-70 duty ("cannae wait til the morra") appointments.
We do 20-30 housecalls per week.
Another 150ish practice nurse appointments is paid for from Practice income, plus all the admin and some expenses for cleaning/heating/etc, writing/referring to hospitals and receiving correspondence back.
So a raw figure of roughly £40-45 per GP appointment but isn't the whole story.
Took my 12 and 14yr old sons to the dentist today to get their teeth scale & polished.
In and out in under 20 minutes: £65.
(They are NHS patients - the regular check-up is free, tartar removal is not).
Once the genie is out of the bottle for GPs charging patients to be seen it ain't ever going back in and that will be to the detriment of the country.
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