Half of GP registrars worse off compared with final year of hospital training

And a fifth of GP registrars surveyed said they had taken on hospital locum work.

More than half of GP registrars are earning less than they did in their final year of pre-vocational hospital training, with many trainees doing hospital locum work to supplement their income, a Federal Government survey has found. 

Only 23% of the 1274 registrars who took part indicated that they were earning more now than they did in the hospital system.