The role of a Nurse Anesthetist in the UK is highly respected and offers substantial financial rewards. As healthcare advances and surgical procedures become more complex, the demand for skilled Nurse Anesthetists continues to grow. From leading hospitals in London to specialized surgical centers in Manchester and Edinburgh, healthcare institutions are seeking top talent, providing competitive salaries and benefits.
Nurse Anesthetist salary
Base pay £28K – £42K/yr
£34K/yr average base pay
The estimated total pay for a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist Crna is £35,954 per year, with an average salary of £34,301 per year. This number represents the median, which is the midpoint of the ranges from our proprietary Total Pay Estimate model and based on salaries collected from our users. The estimated additional pay is £1,653 per year. Additional pay could include cash bonus, commission, tips, and profit sharing.
The “Most Likely Range” reflects values within the 25th and 75th percentile of all pay data available for this role. Glassdoor salaries are powered by our proprietary machine learning model, which utilises salaries collected from our users and the latest government data to make pay predictions.
What do Nurse Anesthetist earn
How much does a Nurse Anesthetist make in United Kingdom?
£26,137/yr
What’s on Quora?
Why does a nurse anesthetist make so much money ($200K per year)?
First, I would like to know what is meant by “so much”.
Second, let me tell you about how I became an anaesthetist.
I went to university for 7 years followed by 2 years general hospital work and then followed by 7 years anaesthetic training (usually 5 years but I did 2 years ICU).
I spend my working hours controlling and maintaining normal physiological function. I control heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, blood flow, temperature, consciousness and keep you safe and with no memory of your procedure. I paralyse muscles and ablate sensation.
I do on call and come in to work at all hours for infants to over 100 year olds who are in various states of physiological derangement. I do so (usually) without complaint, even when that person may have been drink driving, drug abusing or an innocent bystander.
Tell me, how much do you think an anaesthetist is worth?
Top Answer
Honestly I do not think we get paid that much for the hours we work and the amount of responsibility we assume every time we anesthetize a patient.
If it makes you feel any better state and federal government agrees with you and does not pay us very much. Medicaid pays anesthesia about $52 an hour, $416 for 8 hours in the OR. Then we have to take out all our expenses from that, malpractice insurance, billing expenses, office rent and employee salaries and finally taxes. Medicare is slightly better at $78 per hour.
So after 4 years of college, 4 years of medical school, 3 to 5 years of specialization training, we finally enter into the workplace in our 30’s with $100,000 to $200,000 of student debt. For that we get paid $30 to $60 per hour, after expenses, before taxes.
Does that sound like too much for the years of training and the debt we incur? Is it any wonder why most physicians are against single payer when we see how much government values our services.
By law: We can’t unionize. We can’t go on strike. We can’t write off when patients don’t pay us as bad debt.
Paid too much? Don’t make me laugh. Yes, we do charge private patients and insurance companies more than Medicare and Medicaid. We have to or we could not survive. Next time you get what looks like a big bill from a physician, understand you are subsidizing the terrible government underpayments.
