Partners
There are issues which relate more to partners, for example management of employees and ownership of assets such as buildings.
Running a practice is a complicated mixture of medicine and management. There is the clinical challenge of full responsibility for the individuals and the small community of patients. There is the administrative challenge of coordinating finance, employment, information control, dealing with legislation and policies and protocols.
Business advice is always valuable. Business link is a group set up nationally to provide general advice. There are organisations more medicine related such as BAMM the british association of medical managers and the national association of primary care.
Useful resources for managing the QOF workload include
GP Contract site is useful for looking at perevalance graphs
Another site with a similar name has a review of the contract.
The NHS information centre has much more information about you and your neighbouring practices.