title: Setting up in private practice. A guide for the newly appointed consultant.
abstract: If you are considering going into private practice under the present contract weigh up the cost, seek advice as to prospective earnings, join a partnership if you can, buy sound sensible equipment (second-hand if possible), insure for super-annuation and sickness benefits right away--it is both cheaper and safer. Agree a sensible NHS programme from the start using the advice of the BMA and the Association of Anaesthetists, and, when you are an established practitioner and a young colleague joins you, try to give him a helping hand and sound advice. The sine qua non of survival is co-operation.
mesh_terms: D000776:Anesthesiology; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D011216:Practice Management, Medical; D011331:Private Practice; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom