Give GPs the right to NHS salaries in switch from system of independent contractors

Give GPs the right to NHS salaries in switch from system of independent contractors Historic GP ‘partner model’ should be phased out in England to tackle workforce crisis, provide better care and ‘let doctors be doctors’

A new IPPR report calls for general practitioners to become salaried employees of the NHS, rather than independent contractors, known as partners, who run their own GP practices. This move would overturn the historic model of general practice that has been in place since 1948.

The think tank’s researchers argue that this shift, to be phased in, would enable the NHS in England to deliver better access to and quality of primary care in the community. It would also help to address the workforce crisis in general practice, they say. Institute for Public Policy Research