Partnership or salaried GP: what about the engaged GP?

Sajid Javid’s suggestion that general practitioners should be employed by hospitals has caused anger by threatening the autonomy of GPs.1 We assume that partnership drives us to run our practices and in time the wider system. Salaried practice is often sold as “no management commitment,” possibly creating a cohort of GPs who have minimal involvement or interest in wider development, which is a huge part of …