Margaret McCartney: We need more openness on GPs’ pay

Boris Johnson has done it. So has Jeremy Corbyn. Jacob Rees-Mogg said that he didn’t want to be the last. In Norway, which lacks British shyness, everyone’s is public. In some political circles tax returns have gone full frontal—what you earn and who from, published with offshore profits and share dividends for all to see.

General practice would benefit from similar openness. English general practices are now required to publish the average earnings of GPs in the practice. But this is presented as average wages without the hours worked or the …