Dr Clare Sieber shares insights from her time on the General Practice Committee, exploring GP representation and what it means for leadership, governance, and communication in primary care.

A partnership without a valid, signed partnership agreement will likely be operating as a ‘partnership at will’. This means that instead of working under terms agreed by the partners, the running of your practice is governed by the 1890 Partnership Act. ‘ We have made an active choice not to have a partnership agreement because we all get on fine together ’, is a phrase I often hear, but by choosing to have no partnership agreement, that partnership has - without realising -