Income development of General Practitioners in eight European countries from 1975 to 2005

Table 4 Different income units (per year, per patient and per working hour) for 2000 (income data in pppUS$, sorted by income on annual basis)

Country	Annual income 2000	Number of patients per GP¹⁾	Income per patient	Working hours²⁾	Income per hour	GP-density
Germany	96,325	937	102.75	60	31.03	1.1
Denmark	85,362	1311	65.11	43	38.53	0.9
UK	80,580	1600	50.37	58	26.72	0.6
Netherlands	65,842	2529	26.03	44	28.78	0.5
Sweden	54,124	1898	28.52	38	27.18	0.5
France	53,889	622	81.40	56	18.44	1.6
Finland	47,213	1384	34.11	38	23.89	0.7
Belgium	25,602	860	29.77	40	12.31	2.1

1) For Belgium, Denmark and the Netherlands, the number of patients per GP is based on the figures for a full-time GP as used in this study; for the other countries, the figures are derived from the OECD health data files 2006.
2) Working hours per week. For Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK the figures are based on data collected in this study. For the UK, the figure includes being on-call [26]. For Finland and Sweden, the figures are based on the rather old study of Boerma (data collection in 1993) [27].
3) The remuneration of GPs in the Netherlands is a combination of a capitation fee for the publicly insured patients (about 2/3 of the annual revenues) and a fee-for-service for the privately insured patients (about 1/3 of the total revenues). Since the share of fee-for-service is substantial, we characterized the Netherlands as a fee-for-service country.

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