The Datum Report

Occupation 1231 · Managers, directors and senior officials

Health care practice managers

Half of full-time health care practice managers in the UK earn more than £42,559 a year, and half earn less.

Healthcare practice managers plan, organise, direct and co-ordinate the work and resources of medical, dental and other types of healthcare practice, including veterinary practices.

How people enter it

There are no pre-set entry requirements. Candidates are recruited with a variety of academic qualifications or with relevant experience. Professional qualifications are available and are required for certain posts.

What the work involves

• plans work schedules, assigns tasks and delegates responsibilities of practice staff
• oversees staff training and monitors training needs
• takes responsibility for health and safety matters within the practice
• negotiates contracts for services with other health care providers and purchasers
• maintains patient files on medical history, consultations and treatment undertaken and/or drugs prescribed
• organises duty rosters for professional and support staff in practice
• takes responsibility for stock control of practice equipment, drugs, etc
• liaises with relevant outside organisations (e.g. NHS trust, PCT, social services, drug companies, professional bodies)
• responsible for budgeting, pricing and accounting activities within the practice

Also called

Clinic manager · Dental practice manager · GP practice manager · Patient services manager · Veterinary practice manager

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for health care practice managers, full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 5 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

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