title: Business plans--tips from the toolkit 6.
abstract: General practice is a business. Most practices can stay afloat by having appointments, billing patients, managing the administration processes and working long hours. What distinguishes the high performance organisation from the average organisation is a business plan. This article examines how to create a simple business plan that can be applied to the general practice setting and is drawn from material contained in The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners' 'General practice management toolkit'.
authors.affiliation: Royal Australian College of General Practitioners National Standing Committee--GP Advocacy and Support, Victoria. n.steer@gpr.com.au
authors.forename: Neville
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Steer
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D003132:Commerce; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D058006:General Practice / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D010934:Planning Techniques; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*