2023-04-24 16:14:23
Consultation rates will increase by €1.50 before the end of the year, according to the “arbitration rules“presented Monday to the unions of liberal doctors. The consultation should therefore reach a minimum of 26.50 euros for general practitioners and 31.50 euros for specialists.
This measure, which the Health Insurance had estimated at 600 million euros in a full year, remains however well below the 30 to 50 euros minimum claimed in vain for months by the unions, strikes and demonstrations in support. They disputed the increase in the price of the consultation once morest certain counterparties (taking more patients, doing night shifts, exercising in a medical desert, working on Saturday mornings, etc.).
Price increases are, in any case, strongly requested by French doctors. Yet are they so poorly paid? A study by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) makes it possible to compare the income of doctors from different countries and to situate the French in relation to their colleagues.
For these calculations, the OECD has compared the average salary of general practitioners (employees and liberals) in different countries with the average salary of the country in question, in 2019. And, in this ranking, France comes in third place: a general practitioner earns three times the average salary.
The two countries ahead are the United Kingdom and Germany. Across the Channel, general practitioners are paid 3.3 times the average salary, while in Germany, this remuneration is almost 4.4 times the average salary. Thus, according to the OECD, French doctors are better paid than those in the Netherlands, Austria, Canada, Ireland… (compared to the average salary of each country).
However, there are great disparities in the salaries of practitioners. According to a study by the Department of Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics (DREES), in 2017, liberals declared an average annual income from work of 120,000 euros. But with large variations depending on the type of activity: from 400,000 euros on average for radiologists to 92,000 euros for general practitioners; and even within a specialty. Thus, among GPs, the top 10% earn at least 3.8 times more than the bottom 10%.
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