article_snippet: NHS officials in West Midlands are proposing to pay family doctors £150 an hour – as well as £200 towards staffing costs - to work on Easter Saturday .
article_snippet: Officials in West Midlands are proposing to pay family doctors £150 an hour – as well as £200 towards staffing costs – to work for three hours the morning of Easter Saturday.
article_snippet: NHS officials are offering surgeries in the region covering Birmingham, Solihull, Hereford and Worcester £650 to open for three hours.
article_snippet: This includes £150 per hour paid to one GP for three hours and the remaining £200 to pay for receptionists or practice nurses.
article_snippet: There are 600 practices in two regions being offered the payments which include the Birmingham, Solihull and the Black Country as well as Arden, Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
article_snippet: One, a GP partner, a senior doctor in charge of a surgery, said: ‘I do not get out of bed for less than £300 per hour
article_snippet: And a practice nurse said: ‘A plumber would get paid more, a solicitor would get that per hour.
highlights_snippet: NHS officials in West Midlands are proposing to pay doctors £150 per hour .
  