bridge too far

Not as much as ITV pays its chief: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/7474359/Michael-Grade-walks-from-ITV-with-1.2m-bonus.html For a far inferior product.

I bet that GP manages more than one practice and / or surgery and may well run surgery based pharmacies as well. His 'salary' is, in fact, his profit after he's paid out for staff and premises and obviously, if he has more than one practice his overheads are higher and so are his profits. In fact, if he does own more than one practice, I can well imagine that he achieves economies of scale which can only be beneficial for his patients and the NHS.

I'd have one if I didn't already have a neurotic old cat who is still recovering from the ordeal of having my 2 year old granddaughter staying over at the weekend

I think the PM should be paid more, even given that he has two grace-and-favour residences. I was interested to read this: Regardless of how long he or she serves, any former Prime Minister is entitled to half his £194,250 salary index-linked against inflation for the rest of his life. Mr Brown voluntarily waived his right to this payment – but the entitlement remains in legislation for whoever his successor might be; even if they only hold the post for a few months. from: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ianmcowie/100005545/number-10-defends-gordon-browns-gold-plated-pension/ The Torygraph's 'economical with the truth' headline didn't escape my attention I'm not sure why the PM's salary is shown as £194K+ - do they get paid for being an MP on top of the PM's salary?

cox

Is this a euphemism?

I might have a bumoscope - you never know!

Not to mention old mens' prostates

But it wasn't for 'much less work' was it. GPs have to pay for their premises and staff and were paid for the number of health promotion and prevention services they provided as well as for the routine surgeries. Health promotion and prevention is very cost effective. For example, diabetes testing can reduce the incidence of blindness and amputation in the long run. So actually it's money well spent. They also have to pay private companies to provide an out-of-hours service if they are not able / willing to do it themselves.

I don't know how it works in local government and the civil service, but in the NHS there is the Agenda for Change. This is a formula for working out pay using various criteria including, for example: Size of budget responsibility Number of staff directly reporting to said manager Market forces For example, a former manager of mine earned something in the order of £80K. For that, she had budget responsibility for two concurrent PFI projects worth a total of over £200m and she managed over 30 people. The market forces principle didn't apply, it would seem, as she would have earned far more had she been project director for the construction company building the hospitals. I guess some, if not all, of the above apply in the private sector too. Although quite how some of the big, big earners taking home millions a year fit such criteria. Isn't there a move to suggest that all 'bosses' earn no more than 20 times the lowest paid member of his / her workforce?

I wonder what the comparable rates are for comparable jobs in the private sector. We never see those published, do we? We mustn't forget that most GPs are in fact self-employed and contracted to the NHS. I wonder what other 'specialists' contracted by the public sector earn? Here's an article about headteachers' pay in the private sector: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article6968530.ecen and this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/6894998/Head-teachers-get-pay-rises-to-push-salaries-over-150000.html

lunch

Supposing he dropped his screwdriver just as he got to the top! How annoying would that be

power

Southampton City Council Inner London Education Authority South Bank University Dancer / choreographer / teacher / dancewear shop owner (all self-employed) NHS Audit consultancy Holiday jobs whilst at school = Condor (Winchester) and Air Products (Hythe)

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Here's the lowdown on copyright. http://www.ipo.gov.uk/copy.htm I haven't read it fully but it seems to me that there are time limits so, if the photos are really old, they might be time expired.