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Britain’s biggest GP body is advertising lucrative jobs abroad which pay up to three times more than the NHS, MailOnline can reveal.
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) — which represents 50,000-plus members — posts hundreds of roles on its vacancies site.
One job in British Columbia, Canada, famed for its picturesque scenery, comes with a whopping £316,000 salary.
Another pledges a £23,000 relocation package on top of a similar pay package, and brags about being close to an
Britain’s biggest GP body was today accused of fueling the NHS’s staffing crisis by advertising £200,000-a-year jobs abroad.
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), which represents over 54,000 members, posts hundreds of roles on its vacancies site.
MailOnline discovered nine listings for roles in Australia, including one that tries to lure GPs with the promise of ‘sunshine all year round’.
Others offered family doctors a ‘better work-life balance’ and ‘zero admin’ — two of the biggest bugbears of British
Boris Johnson was today urged to call an emergency Cobra meeting to ‘thrash out a rescue plan’ to save the NHS from its ‘devastating’ workforce crisis.
Damning statistics today showed the number of doctors and nurses off work because of the virus doubled in the fortnight before Christmas, with 28,000 absences on Boxing Day alone.
At the same time, the number of Covid-infected patients being treated in hospital has risen to levels last seen in February amid the rapid spread
