{"id":451286,"date":"2026-03-01T02:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T02:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451286\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T02:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T02:42:07","slug":"why-are-more-gps-opting-to-work-outside-the-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451286\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are more GPs opting to work outside the NHS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the five years to the end of 2025, the CQC received 1,238 new registrations for &#8220;independent consulting doctors&#8221; in England, compared with 396 in the previous five years \u2013 a 212% increase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Between 2024 and 2025, new registrations rose by 58%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Independent consulting doctors are individual clinicians who provide medical care privately, outside the NHS, either in person or online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The category covers a wide range of specialities, from general practice to skin complaints, women&#8217;s health, and aesthetics. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both the CQC and NHS England say there is no category that isolates private GP registrations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For context, the Royal College of GPs says 6,229 NHS GP practices were active as of September 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the five years to the end of 2025, the CQC received 1,238 new registrations for &#8220;independent consulting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-451286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}