On 13/02/2018 00:52, pamela wrote:
On 23:49 12 Feb 2018, Roger Hayter wrote:

pamela wrote:

On 20:14 12 Feb 2018, Roger Hayter wrote:

Andrew wrote:

On 11/02/2018 23:20, Max Demian wrote:
The pension terms (both contributions and benefits) have
been altered many times over the years,

Nope.

The NHS superannuation scheme has a 1/80th accrual rate and a
retirement age of 60 and a tax-free lump sum of 3x first years
pension. All this for a 6% employee contribution, and GPs,
despite being 'self-employed' are full members of this scheme.
Eat your heart out ARW if you have to make your own provision.

Had, you mean, not has. And you fail to mention the
employer's contribution which was quite large. And,
interestingly, GPs have to pay the employer's contribution out
of their gross remuneration, as self-employed. And even all
that is subject to a maximum pension pot of 1.2M which is
equivalent to a relatively moderate final salary.

It's hard for heart to feel sorry for GP's making pension
contributions when they were and may still be the best paid GPs
in the industrialised world. One received £700K last year.
Union man too, no doubt.

This was a payment for providing a service. He almost certainly
had to pay at least on and probably more than one other person to
meet his obligations. Or else finance another practice and
receive reimbursement as an entrepreneur rather than as a doctor.
The remuneration of GP practices is sufficiently complicated that
unscrupulour journalists can mislead to their heart's content by
lying about it.

I believe the £700K was the GP's salary (and associated personal
benefits) rather than his practice's profits

https://inews.co.uk/news/health/nhs-...aid-gp-doctor/


Well, you could cited the other statistics in that article - many earn
£56k, and the average is £90k.

But of course by doing that you couldn't have made your point ;-)

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Cheers, Rob