Four in ten GP partners would consider a salaried GP role ‘if offered the right deal’, a Pulse survey of 800 GPs finds.
And 27% of the 442 GP partners surveyed had ‘considered handing [their] contract back’ within the last year.
As pressures mount, the profession has shifted to a roughly 50/50 split between sessional GPs (salaried GPs and GP locums) and GP partners.
Results come just two weeks after the BMA Sessional GPs subcommittee applied to split from the General Practitioners Committee (GPC).
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Dr Richard Fieldhouse, NASGP chair, said: “We have a long tradition in general practice of justifying our sense of purpose as being committed to continuity of care, which we then exclusively link with the partnership model.
“Despite the NHS having been founded nearly 75 years ago, our approach hasn’t changed, but the landscape has, dramatically. GP workload, patients expectations, public demand and medical advances all mean that sticking to the traditional model has significant limitations. And this latest survey suggests that desperately clinging on to that model is not sustainable.
“As well as continuity, we also need to pay much more attention to the value of providing better access for practices that struggle to recruit; valuing the benefit to a patient of more than just one opinion; and to modern Nobel prize-winning innovations in behavioural psychology.
“Rather than being distracted by headlines that show changes in attitude to our professions – and politicians’ – preferred contractual status, we need instead to be celebrating the richness and diversity of working as a GP, no matter what your contract says.”
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