When a GP surgery "fails", the obituary is usually short: recruitment crisis, rising demand, funding cuts. But that is rarely the whole story. The Death of a Practice walks you through the post-mortem. Drawing on real cases from the consulting room, the partners' meeting and the courtroom, this book exposes how practices actually die: not in a single catastrophic event, but through a series of unnoticed decisions, blind spots and legal traps. CQC enforcement, NHS England investigations, partnership disputes, Performers List suspensions, locum dependence, opaque finances - each can be survivable on its own. Together, they can be terminal. Inside, you will find: ¿ Practice Autopsies - step-by-step dissections of failing and failed surgeries: what went wrong, what was missed, and where the law quietly shifted the risk back onto partners. ¿ Hidden Law - the "small print" of regulation, contracts and guidance that turns everyday decisions into existential threats for the practice. ¿ Early Warning Signs - practical indicators that your practice is on a dangerous trajectory long before the headlines or the inspectors arrive. ¿ Survival Strategies - clear, actionable ways to renegotiate risk, strengthen governance, and protect both the partnership and individual clinicians. Written by Dr Oluwatoyin Ogunsanya - Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist turned GP Partner, and later Solicitor Advocate - this book combines clinical insight with legal expertise. It is for GPs, partners, practice managers, PCN leaders, medico-legal advisers and anyone who suspects that "business as usual" in general practice is more fragile than it looks. If you have ever sat in a partners' meeting with a knot in your stomach, wondering whether your practice will survive the next inspection, letter or complaint, Death of a Practice is your wake-up call - and your roadmap. Before your practice becomes a case study, read the autopsy.