Speak up, I can’t hear you! The GP as business owner is a voice unheard

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Speak up, I can’t hear you! The GP as business owner is a voice unheard

Tim Malloy, RNZCGP

Tim Malloy

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No representative body or agency holds the mandate to be the voice of the GP business owner

GENPRO

You wouldn’t describe the typical general practice owner as a reticent person. But their voice is not getting heard by the powers that be, writes Tim Malloy, and this must change

“Lacking a voice” is not a phrase I would readily use to describe many of my general practice business owner colleagues. Nor would they, I suspect, ab