Royal college urged to end use of “pejorative” term salaried GP

Delegates at the annual conference of the Royal College of General Practitioners in Liverpool applauded a colleague who called for an end to the use of the term “salaried” to describe doctors employed by general practices.

Sally Ross, a GP in Portsmouth, told a discussion on 25 October, “I’ve never heard a surgeon or a respiratory physician describe themselves as salaried.

“It is a pejorative term. I’m an appraiser, and I see a lot of salaried GPs who would love to contribute more but because of their contractual status they don’t. Please will the college start from tomorrow to abandon the term?”

Responding to the question, Dublin GP Austin O’Carroll said that there could be a link between …