§ 61. Mr. William Hamiltonasked the Minister of Health if he will state the average annual income of a general practitioner within the National Health Service taking into account the latest increases, the comparable figures for 1950, 1955, 1960 and 1965, the equivalent figures for a third-year trainee nurse, a staff nurse, and a ward sister.
§ Mr. K. RobinsonFollowing is the information:—
The former arrangements for remunerating general medical practitioners were designed to provide them with average net incomes, in Great Britain, as follows:
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1950–51 £2,222 per annum from all profession sources 1955–56 1960–61 £2,425 per annum from official sources 1965–66 £2,775 per annum from Executive Councils The average of £2,425 per annum in 1960–61 will have been supplemented by earnings from private practice; and the average of £2,775 per annum in 1965–66 by earnings from private practice and from work undertaken for hospitals, local authorities and Government departments.
The differential payments introduced on 1st October, 1966, as part of the new system of payment result in its being no longer meaningful to express remuneration in terms of a net average per practitioner.
Figures for average incomes of various grades of nurses are not available but the training allowances payable to Third Year Student Nurses and the range of pay scales of Staff Nurses and Ward Sisters in General Hospitals are set out below.
3RD YEAR STUDENT NURSE (GENERAL) 1950 … … £225 1955 … … £265 1960 … … £320 £336 (from 1.12.60) 1965 … … £420(from1.7.65)
STAFF NURSE Men Women Min. Max Min. Max. £ £ £ £ 1950 325 425 315 415 1955 395 495 385 485 1960 500 625 498 623 525 656 from 1.12.60 523 654 1965 690 880 from 1.7.65 690 880
WARD SISTER Men Women Min. Max. Min. Max. £ £ £ £ 1950 385 500 375 500 1955 460 575 450 575 1960 625 800 622 800 656 840 from 1.12.60 653 840 1963 890 1,205 from 1.7.65 890 1,205