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Letter: I wish new contract had been around in my day.

GP

| May 04, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Haymarket Business Publications Ltd. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Dear Editor

I was somewhat bemused and bewildered by Dr Hari Nawal's well-expressed gripes about the recent developments in the running of general practice under the new GMS contract - mainly about the adverse effects on the GP's own health and family life, as he sees them (GP, 13 April).

Most GPs I know seem to be profoundly pleased with the 8am-6pm (in reality 9am-5pm) duties on weekdays only, while being paid twice as much as before, with considerably enhanced pensions to look forward to.

As far as quality targets, Choose and Book, practice-based commissioning and so forth are concerned, the practices …

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