Looking through the BMJ Careers adverts I saw an advert for a GPSI post in
A&E and was stunned.
This position attracts £9,418 for a three and a half hour session each week.
My current consultant contract effectively gets me about £6,363 for each of
my three and a half hour sessions a week. This GPSI post gives you 6
sessions annual leave and 4 sessions CPD leaving 42 sessions clinical
activity. I assume this is equivalent to my 6 weeks annual leave and 2
weeks study leave which results in 44 weeks clinical activity. Throwing in
the lack of on-call for this job why on earth are any of us working for the
money we get and would any of us want to work alongside a GPSI in our
department if they were earning 50% more than us per session?
Simon McCormick
P.S. If I've got this wrong somewhere then please let me know!
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