How to Manage Your GP Practice

The business side of running a medical practice may be unappealing but it's crucial How to Manage Your GP Practice is written for GPs and other health professionals running their own practices. It tells you in simple, engaging style what the pitfalls are and how to avoid them. It illustrates the good and bad ways of negotiating through management issues, using case examples and lightening the messages with witty cartoons. Written by a GP with over 10 years' experience editing a leading GP magazine, and an accountant whose firm advises over 2500 GPs, the information here is sound, relevant and up to date. It provides reliable and reassuring information for doctors starting out in their careers as well as those looking to refresh their management skills.

Preface vii Chapter 1: The business as an organism 1 Chapter 2: The challenge that is staff 17 Chapter 3: Basic practice accounting 37 Chapter 4: Budgeting 73 Chapter 5: Choosing the right operational model for the practice 81 Chapter 6: Business growth 87 Chapter 7: Planning for the exit 99 Chapter 8: Ten questions answered 113 Chapter 9: Thou shalt . . . thou shalt not! 125 Appendix 1: Useful contacts 127 Appendix 2: Full set of practice accounts 129 Index 143