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GP educators workload and pay – Your help is requested

June 2008

The General Practitioners Committee (GPC) would like to see a significant increase in GP educators’ pay. While a pay scale was negotiated in 2003 between the GPC, other relevant organisations1 and the English Department of Health, this has unfortunately not been uplifted sufficiently in line with the pay of GP providers. To help to achieve the required increase, we are undertaking a comprehensive survey of GP educators and will use the aggregate data in negotiations with the Departments of Health and for our evidence to the Doctors’ and Dentists’ Review Body (DDRB).

We need your help to obtain accurate information on the work involved in being a GP educator. We also need your views on being a GP educator. I therefore hope that you will complete the enclosed questionnaire and the diary exercise. The diary is to be completed during one week (starting on any day of the week) between 9 June and 27 June 2008, and should take no more than five minutes to complete for each session of your working day.

Please note that, for the purposes of this survey, any work that you do as a GP trainer or GP appraiser is to be excluded.

I urge you to complete the questionnaire and diary exercise. It is vital that we achieve a large number of returns in order to validate our research. Also, given that the results could be in the best interests of GP educators, we strongly urge you to take the take to complete and return your questionnaire and diary by 30 June 2008.