What is an empty GP chair costing you?
Plug in your clinic's numbers. We'll show you the revenue an unfilled chair is quietly draining every month and year, then what filling it directly is worth.
Most clinics retain 30-40%.
- Paid again on every hire
- 8–12 weeks, you never own it
- Low GP response, months of screening
- Competing with every other clinic
- ~3 weeks to your first qualified GP
- You own the database & outreach, reuse it for every future vacancy
- It's a system you keep, not an agency you re-hire
- Guaranteed to hire, or we keep launching
Estimate based on 48 working weeks a year and the inputs above. A guide for your own planning, book a call and we'll map the fastest path to filling your chair.
How we calculate the cost of an empty GP chair
The figure above multiplies your unfilled positions by patients per GP per day, average revenue per consult, days open per week, and 48 working weeks a year, then applies your clinic's share of billings. It is a planning estimate, not an accounting figure, but it puts a number on paper that most clinics never see: the revenue an empty room quietly drains every week it stays dark.
Why an empty chair costs more than the recruiter fee
Clinics tend to anchor on the obvious line item, the $25,000 to $40,000 recruiter cheque, and miss the larger one underneath it: months of lost billings while the chair sits empty. A vacancy open for even a few months usually costs several times the recruitment fee in foregone revenue. That gap is the whole reason this calculator exists, and the reason filling the chair quickly matters more than filling it cheaply.
How to reduce your time to fill
Job boards only surface the under-10% of doctors actively looking. The faster path is to reach the passive 90% directly, with compliant doctor-to-doctor outreach, and to respond the same day a doctor replies, the single biggest lever on conversion. That is what a Reyah system does, and you keep it: a system you own and re-run for every future vacancy, not an agency you re-hire. Book a call to talk through what an empty chair is costing you.