Introduction

Establishing or setting up a practice applies to many different scenarios. In the old fashioned sense, it can be about putting up your plate and awaiting business but the term also applies to situations such as acquiring a GMS list, or modernising a long established practice. This section looks at the key issues which the establishing GP will encounter in setting up a new practice. However, many of the areas addressed are equally relevant to doctors joining an existing practice, where change in the operation of the practice is likely. Here, reference is made to these issues but dealt with in much greater detail in other sections.