GPs are to be paid {pound}5.25 a shot for swine flu vaccination

doi:10.1136/bmj.b3815

Published 15 September 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b3815
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b3815

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GPs are to be paid £5.25 a shot for swine flu vaccination

Zosia Kmietowicz

¹ London

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GPs in England are to be paid £5.25 ( ${euro}$ 5.90; $8.70) forevery dose of swine flu vaccine they administer, once it islicensed, under a deal agreed between the BMA and the Departmentof Health.

In total, GPs stand to earn an extra £47m between them,or about £1424 each, if they vaccinate all the nine millionpeople in England identified as being at risk.

The health secretary, Andy Burnham, said, "This deal representsgood value for money, as the vaccine programme will reduce thenumber of people who will need hospital treatment."

There is still no indication of when the vaccine will becomeavailable or whether the vaccination programme will later beextended to the rest of the population. That decision will dependon the how the pandemic develops, the government has said. Ifthe disease remains mild, universal vaccination will not beintroduced.

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