New grassroots movement aims to champion general practice

A new membership organisation for GPs from across the United Kingdom has been set up to give voice to the issues that it says are threatening the viability of primary care.

GP Survival (generalpracticesurvival.com) already has over 3000 members and is free to join. It aims to be the first not for profit, democratic group representing ordinary working GPs.

Andrew McIntosh, a committee member of GP Survival and a GP in Lothian, said that the group was set up because of …