International developments in revenues and incomes of general practitioners from 2000 to 2010

Table 1 Main types of remuneration of GPs in eight countries in 2010 with new (italic) and changed (underlined) remuneration types compared to 2000

	Salary	Fee-for-service	Capita-tion fee*	Perfor-mance fee	Integrated care fee	Other	Type of change
Belgium		Yes	Yes		Yes		Incremental
Denmark		Yes	Yes		Yes**		Incremental
Finland	Yes	Yes	Yes				Incremental
France		Yes	Yes	Yes			Incremental
Germany		Yes			Yes**		Comprehensive
The Netherlands	*******	Yes	Yes		Yes**	Yes	Comprehensive
Sweden	Yes						Incremental
UK (England)	***		Yes	Yes			Comprehensive

If the text “Yes” is in italic, this type of remuneration is new for this country and if the text is underlined, this type of remuneration has changed in that particular country in 2010 compared to the year 2000.
* Capitation fee here includes also the fees for keeping a patient’s record.
**The integrated care fee is fairly new and in none of the countries it forms a significant share of the total revenue.
*** In the Netherlands 7-12% of the GPs are in salaried employment with independent GPs in the past decade. In the UK, also a growing number of GPs in working in salaried service, from 10% in 2004 to 19% in 2008 (including GPs working in salaried service and GPs who work flexible arrangements, excluding trainees (GP registrars) [34].

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