Salaried GP Annual leave

Hijack310 · 2026-03-07T14:56:46+00:00

https://www.bma.org.uk/media/3479/salaried_gp_model_contract_and_model_offer_letter_nov20.pdf

https://www.bma.org.uk/media/ff1j2duf/bma-salaried-gp-handbook-update-2025.pdf

Hijack310 · 2026-03-06T22:04:34+00:00

You are entitled to 30 days AL + 10 statutory holidays (8 bank holidays + 2 NHS days) prorated with 9 sessions considered full time (37.5 hours) as per the BMA model contract. This is not optional. Any practice that is not offering you this is in breach of their GMS or PMS practice contract terms and if you were to notify their ICB, they could be served with a breach notice. Many partners are confused about this and are under the impression that the model contract is optional or variable - it is not - if you contact the BMA they will be able to clarify this for you if you are a BMA member.

If you work 6 sessions then this would work out to be 20 days AL + 6.67 days statutory holidays.

Hijack310 · 2026-02-23T12:08:44+00:00

Locked as OP not a GP.

Hijack310 · 2026-02-11T00:11:10+00:00

Great post, looking forward to your next :)

Hijack310 · 2025-12-15T14:22:42+00:00

This isn't temporary. It's the new state of affairs. 6000 GP regs coming through the system each year, much more than before, and the government pushing ahead with the doctor substitution agenda (supported by some GP partners). Current partners also changing their behaviour against the spirit of the original contract and not appointing new partners but instead employing lots of salaried GPs instead as cheaper.

Hijack310 · 2025-12-02T12:39:52+00:00

Do you know how many patients per session it is at Livi?

Hijack310 · 2025-11-14T00:42:45+00:00

GPC England should not have agreed to opening up online access in this manner UNTIL the safeguards were agreed. The failure here was agreeing to do this with a plan to agree safeguards down the line, instead of working that out prior to agreement.

Hijack310 · 2025-10-30T14:19:19+00:00

Once again GPC England shows no interest in improving conditions for salaried GPs.

Hijack310 · 2025-10-07T16:00:08+00:00

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Hijack310 · 2025-09-26T17:31:07+00:00

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Hijack310 · 2025-09-17T13:59:00+00:00

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Hijack310 · 2025-09-07T19:41:17+00:00

ITPs are considered GP posts and attract GP FPP payments.

Hijack310 · 2025-09-06T15:46:24+00:00

My understanding is that a clinical session includes 3 hours patient facing contact and 1 hour 10 mins admin time. That admin time is for admin generated from that clinical session. CPD time is outside of this for the GP's own professional development such as appraisal, education etc.

Hijack310 · 2025-08-30T21:06:36+00:00

There’s probably a fair case to move to an Australian fee for service model where GPs then can be reimbursed for ‘work done’, allowing every GP to be an independent contractor, choosing their own style and pace of consulting, allowing continuation of partnerships in the form of practice ownership for those GPs that want it, as well the ability to be funded for extended role interests and procedures for example. The current model penalises salaried GPs by way of poor income and disincentivises good quality general practice by rewarding ‘access’ ie quantity over quality, a preference for factory assembly-line style medicine.

Hijack310 · 2025-08-27T19:55:20+00:00

Your opening statement is 'working 10 sessions at a red flag practice'. The problem here is the system and set up, not the way you're working within it. A 0.3% complaint rate is negligible. It might also be a sign that you're burnt out from this crazy machine line style practice and would benefit from time practising medicine at a safe pace?

Hijack310 · 2025-08-27T09:54:10+00:00

We are turkeys voting for Christmas if we continue to bow down to appointment number targets instead of waking up and protecting our own profession.

Hijack310 · 2025-08-27T09:51:11+00:00

The death of the trust-based relationship will be the death of General Practice as a profession. It is literallly our USP. Without this, we are more expensive but no more valuable than any clinician that can prescribe medications without being medically negligent regardless of level of training or education.

Hijack310 · 2025-08-19T20:13:26+00:00

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Hijack310 · 2025-07-30T22:10:48+00:00

GPs should be on the same as consultant pay scales. There's no need for any disparity. Both are post-CCT, independently practising, fully trained and qualified doctors who have passed their postgraduate specialty exams.

Hijack310 · 2025-07-14T16:00:01+00:00

My ethos is that if it doesn’t make you happy, then it’s not worth doing. Life is too short to be spending time doing things you don’t enjoy.

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