If we were truly a private business we would make more money for less stress:
-Refuse to register highest need patients
-Offer woo-woo ‘health checks’ for £££
- stop doing house calls (too much time)
- give customers a glossy brochure of health test results to take to NHS GP
it's a bit disingenious to say that most NHS contracted GPs are private practices; the contract is very restrictive; the private work is limited to stuff NHS doesn't fund(eg insurance reports), we don't have private patients, our hours/workload/ is heavily held to contract/..