Being a practice owner isn't easy, and it certainly isn't cheap.
Over the last two decades, many small-scaled general practices have merged into larger entities, prompted by increases in practice costs and other incentives.
And last year, only one quarter of all practices were GP-owned, down 10% from 2008.
This decline in GP ownership has led to an increase in corporates taking over the running of clinics.
This episode we talk to Dr Caroline de Moel-Mandel, a former Dutch GP and researcher at La Trobe University, about the decline in GP practice ownership and how it could have significant downsides for patients.
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