Why are Dutch GPs so much happier?

Abstract

General practice is similar in the Netherlands and the UK yet it appeals far more to young Dutch doctors than to their British counterparts. In collaboration with the Dutch medical journal Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, Roger Damoiseaux, professor of general practice, and Margaret McCartney, Glasgow GP and The BMJ columnist, met to try to work out why. Sophie Arie reports.

Keywords

General Medicine

Citation

Damoiseaux, R, McCartney, M & Arie, S 2015, 'Why are Dutch GPs so much happier?', BMJ - Clinical research, vol. 351, h6870. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h6870