A subtype of CARE PROFESSIONAL.

A health care practitioner qualified for General Practice, providing healthcare for a particular ORGANISATION; a GENERAL PRACTITIONER may act as either a GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTITIONER or a GENERAL DENTAL PRACTITIONER.

GENERAL PRACTITIONER may be abbreviated to GP.

For GENERAL PRACTITIONERS working in hospitals, the following codes should be used:

• if the GENERAL PRACTITIONER is working as an assistant, use the code of the responsible GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTITIONER (SPECIFIED)
• if the GENERAL PRACTITIONER is working as a GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTITIONER (SPECIFIED), use the GENERAL PRACTITIONER's GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL REFERENCE NUMBER. 

This class is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
shortname	GP
plural	GENERAL PRACTITIONERS