More than half of future GPs would work for practices run by private providers, a GP snapshot poll has found.

No surprise. Real General Practice will only survive if all GPs stick together and refuse the salaried GP system, so offering young GP's the opportunity to be part of a traditional practices as partners. Unless those GP's winging about private firms taking over reverse the salaried trend, then more and more young GP's will choose to be exploited by companies rather than by their colleagues. GP's in this blog are quick to blaime politicians but they are playing the same game - feathering their own nests at the expense of the entire system.

I qualified last year and it has been difficult to get a regular job let alone partnership. Most senior GPs are only interested in their huge annual profits and not willing to create opportunities for younger ones. At the same time they expect these same jobless and salaried GPs to help form a united front. sorry this cannot work. The bottom line is putting bread on the table of your family and if that means working for private entities then so be it. Unity can only come when the more privileged can help the less privileged. Until then I'm afraid the key word is survival. I can foresee the slow death of family general practice.

As a GP in a partnership, I think we need to do more to encourage partnerships. There's a sea of new talent out there which will go to waste if we didn't offer partnerships.

Medical Practices are probably the only profession that people expect to go in as partners, particularly without buying a share of the business. In other professions you go in as an employee and work your way in, usually after a number of years & only if you work hard enough to satisfy the existing partners that you are capable of bringing in the money. Yes medicine is a bit different, however I listen to young GPs expecting the earth when they are just out of training & wonder what planet they are on. I am a practice manager (former accountant) & not a partner.

Companies will inevitably look for efficiency and profit. This will be at the expense of their employed Doctors. Shareholders will always come first. Fancy higher workloads, direction, and reduced salaries then vote for this !!