The earnings of 161 GPs have been disclosed by Freedom of Information requests, with a Shropshire GP making more than £300,000 annually from the NHS.

For the financial year 2008-09, the 161 GPs earned annually around £200,000.

The highest yearly income was £507,241, found to be made by a senior partner and proprietor of two practices in the London borough of Hillingdon. The earnings of six other doctors, including the highest paid GP stood at more than £300,000 a year.

Dr. Shiverdorayi Raghavan is also among the GPs, who are making a good fortune out of NHS funds. It is estimated that he earned £1million from the NHS in just two years. The doctor operates two facilities in Birmingham.

PCT make payments to GP practices through nationally determined contracts, as told by Stuart Rees, Director of Finance, Shropshire County Primary Care Trust. The rest of the earnings are made through independent practices.

He said, “The PCT can confirm that in 2008-09 there was one GP in Shropshire who declared NHS pensionable earnings of more than £300,000”.

No details have been found of the doctor earning so much. But county’s other doctors are amazed at this fact. Some called the earnings as an astronomical amount.

One such GP, Dr. Mary McCarthy of Shrewsbury, Chairman of the Shropshire Local Medical Committee (LMC) expressed that such a GP must be carrying out individual practices that are paid by NHS.