>>14346377Depends where you are living in the country.
GP trainees are paid a premium, so you get more than ST1/2 doctors in other specialties. However, your post-tax pay will be approx £2,400 - £2,700 monthly as I estimate it. When I was an ST2 (not a GP trainee) I was taking home around £2,800 per month.
I was able to support my wife and son on a similar take-home pay for a few years without locums for a few years. It all depends on where you will be living as to what your expenses will ultimately be. How many children do you have?
With GP training, you only do one year of hospital medicine with on call duties. After that, you gain so much extra time to do locum work. A&E locums are particularly lucrative and usually pay higher rates. GP training has the shortest overall course so your earning potential rises far quicker than other specialities. You have to be a bit more creative and you have do deal with a lot of dross but there are significant perks to primary care.
4 years Med School + 2 years Foundation Training + 3 years GP training (only 1 year of which is in hospital) = completion of specialty training in General Practice.
