GPs are paid up to £100 an hour for virtual appointments
GPs are paid up to £100 an hour for virtual appointments as it emerges family doctors are now seeing half their patients via remote consultation
GPs are offered the same rate for virtual appointments as for face-to-face shiftsIt follows an increase in concern about the lack of face to face GP appointmentsLatest figures show that doctors can earn up to £100 for virtual appointments
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GPs can earn £100 an hour without leaving home by carrying out remote consultations with patients.
It is the same rate being offered for in-person consultations, with ‘flexible’ shifts available for doctors during evenings and weekends.
The opportunity for GPs, advertised by Brighton-based out-of-hours care provider Improving Access Services, follows increasing concerns from some patients, particularly elderly ones, about the shift away from in-person appointments.
It follows a rise in wages which saw the average GP in England earn £100,700 in 2019-20.
GPs can earn £100 an hour without leaving home by carrying out remote consultations as concerns grow about a shift away from face-to-face visits as the NHS deals with Covid backlog
Dennis Reed, director of over-60s campaign group Silver Voices, told the Daily Telegraph: ‘The money involved is quite eye-watering.
‘Working from home might make for a less stressful lifestyle for the doctor, but this means fewer GPs in a surgery available for patients who need to see a doctor face-to-face.’
A spokesman for the BMA doctors’ union said: ‘To deal with the growing demand from a rising number of patients with increasingly complex conditions – which long pre-dates the pandemic – and to offer appointments outside of traditional working hours to people who find it difficult to attend during weekdays, all areas in England have provided extended-hours services since 2018.’
An NHS spokesman said: ‘Every GP practice must provide face-to-face as well as telephone and online appointments, and continuing to offer all of these methods of consultation is part of making primary care as accessible as possible.’
