Boiled frogs, tight nooses: The making of a PHO contract

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Boiled frogs, tight nooses: The making of a PHO contract

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The boiling frog that is the annual capitation review process continues to endure [Image: Adobe Photoshop AI generated image]

Another year, another annual increase offer rejected for failing to recognise the ever-growing crisis in general practice. How did we get to this “boiling frog” moment? Fiona Cassie looks at the past and future of general practice contract negotiations

In 2003, a GP leader wrote a grim, some might say prophetic, warning about the risks of primary care’s new contract in the making. Unless the new f