Salaried GPs could expect to receive a pay uplift of 2% for 2022/23, according to Pulse.
But GP partners remain locked out while the current GP contract remains in place.
Final recommendations by the Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration (DDRB) are due in May.
The 2022/23 recommendations come after the DDRB recommendation, which the Government accepted, was for a 3% pay rise for salaried GPs. But as the BMA pointed out at the time, without awarding GP practices the funding to cover it the pay rise was an ‘empty promise‘. At the time, the Government narrowly avoided an impasse after BMA leaders threatened to quit negotiations.
Dr Richard Fieldhouse, chair of NASGP, said: “The NHS is going to need a motivated and engaged salaried GP workforce more than ever; decreasing numbers, increased workload – and that was before the pandemic. With the lengths of hospital waiting lists ever increasing, recruitment and retention is rapidly becoming the next NHS crisis.
“The conversation needs to move from what the NHS can afford to do, to what we can’t afford not to do: we need to fully recognise the tough job salaried GPs are already doing, and do everything we need to do to support and retain them as the level of risk rises as more secondary care needs to be managed in the community.”
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