Britain’s highest-salaried GPs have risen to a level touching earning of up to £300,000-a-year barrier working for the National Health Service, it was reported yesterday.

The revelation emerges following the Gordon Brown's announcement last week of a pay freeze for 40,000 top-earning public sector workers, including GPs.

As a result of that decision their average annual pay has boosted from £72,716 in 2002 to £106,072 now.

Ratneswaren revealed yesterday that he was not the highest-paid doctor in Greenwich, quoting, “I don’t want to be seen as a money-hungry doctor because I am driven by the quality of work and I work very hard. I have got nothing to hide”.

The new evidence of a super-wealthy rank of family doctors is reported to come from Greenwich, South London, where one GP in 2008 grabbed a pay of £378,000 solely from the NHS.

Also, it is uncovered that some 300 GPs in England and Wales currently have a pay of more than a quarter of a million pounds a year, compared to those in highly populated urban likely to earn the most.

A Department of Health spokesman claimed, “The most recent earnings data for 2007-08 showed GPs earning an average of £106,000, a decrease of 1.5 per cent on the previous year”.