Tips & Advice for Newly Qualified GPs

Join Patrick and David as they discuss advice for new GPs.

In this episode of the Illuminating Primary Care podcast, Patrick and David talk about contract and salary negotiations.

They walk you through what might affect sessional rates, differing contract types, BMA model recommendations, and they also offer practical advice for salary negotiations – including what you should definitely avoid when negotiating with a practice!

What topics do we cover?

Patrick and David talk you through what they know about GP salaries and contracts following their years of experience in recruitment, including:

• Factors affecting sessional rate
• Practical advice for GPs
• Contract negotiations
• What to do if a practice doesn’t offer a BMA model contract
• Tips on negotiating
• Things to avoid when negotiating

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Podcast timings

00:19 – Factors affecting sessional rate

04:34 – Practical advice for GPs

07:03 – Contract negotiations

09:45 – BMA recommendations

11:05 – What to do if a practice doesn’t offer BMA contract

12:11 – Common contract variations

14:30 – General advice for contract negotiations

17:04 – Salary negotiations

19:05 – Tips on negotiating

23:59 – Things to avoid

Attend our next webinar

Would you like to attend our next webinar? We will be covering this topic in more detail, and you will have the opportunity to ask us questions.

When and where?

The webinar will take place on June 28th at 2pm, and it will last about an hour. If you would like to attend, please let us know using our contact form. We will send you a Zoom link to join.

You are more than welcome to ask us questions throughout, but if you would prefer to email us your questions, that’s fine too. You can email your questions to [email protected] and we will get back to you.

We look forward to you joining us on our next webinar!

Can’t make it?

All of our webinars will be recorded, so if you can’t make it, let us know using our contact form and we will send you the recording.

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