Practice General Practice Pay Transparency Notice
General Practice Pay Transparency
Purposes for processing
Pay transparency in general practice was introduced into the GP Contract Regulations in October 2021. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) subsequently confirmed that the implementation of general practice pay transparency was to be delayed. The data collection has now been resumed beginning with 2021/22 NHS earnings.
On 1 October 2022, amendments to the NHS (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015 (the ‘GMS Regulations’) and the NHS (Personal Medical Services Agreements) Regulations 2015 (the ‘PMS Regulations’) came into effect to require certain other individuals, namely ‘job holders’, to self-declare their NHS earnings if these are above the earnings threshold for the relevant financial year. These changes are also reflected in an amendment to The Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) Directions 2022. GMS, PMS and APMS contracts have been varied to incorporate these amendments.
Practice disclosure of mean net GP earnings
Lincoln House Surgery – publication of GP net earnings
NHS England require that the net earnings of GPs engaged in the practice is publicised and the required disclosure is shown below. However, it should be noted that the prescribed method for calculating earnings is potentially misleading because it takes no account of how much time GPs spend working in the practice and it should not be used to form any judgement about GP earnings nor to make any comparison with any other practice.
All GP practices are required to declare the mean earnings (i.e. average pay) for GPs working to deliver NHS services to patients at each practice.
The average pay for GPs working in Lincoln House Surgery in the last financial period (9 months) was £94,129 before tax and national insurance. There were 7 GPs who worked in the practice for more than six months in 2024/25.
Understand mean net GP earnings
The mean net earnings figure is the average pay after relevant expenditure and is calculated as follows:
Total relevant income / number of GPs = mean total
Please note this calculation is worked out on a head-count basis of GPs in the practice, not on the number of sessions worked or how much time is worked in the practice by each GP. For this and other reasons it is difficult for you to compare different GP practices using this figure.
