Agencies need to work together on general practitioner staffing

Editor—The general findings of the paper by Taylor and Leese on the recruitment of general practitioners1 are in accord with those of the Medical Practices Committee's pilot study of recruitment to partnership vacancies of 1994 and its recruitment surveys of 1995 and 1996.2 3 Over the past three years these studies have shown a progressive difficulty in recruiting good quality general practitioners, an observation reflected in the recent increase in requests to the committee for extension of time to find a partner. None …