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Chair: Tim Marlton - Managing Director, First Practice Management (FPM)
AM Sessions
9.15 The future landscape of primary care
Underlying forces to change & reform. What the future landscape is likely to look like. Implications for practices: How we should respond. Implications for practice managers.
Jose Tarnowski – Practice Manager, Wrington Vale Medical Practice, Board Member of Woodspring PBC consortium
10.00 Managing shrinking budgets in general practice
Budget management. Cash flow management. Ways to examine practice expenditure to reduce costs. How to maximise income.
Rosemary Smith – Healthcare Manager, Tenon
10.40 Exhibition and Morning Coffee
11.15 Employment law update for practices
What's new. Grievance procedures. Flexible working. Changing employment contracts to meet extended hours. Outsourcing vs. in-house provision. Sharing costs between practices: What models might work?
Andrew Lockhart-Mirams – NHS Commercial Team Lead, Lockharts Solicitors
12.00 Best practice guide to recruitment
Preparing your recruitment campaign. Legal aspects & other considerations for practice managers.
Kelly Morris – Recruitment Manager, Haymarket Medical Media & Advertising Manager, GP newspaper, Independent Nurse and Healthcare Republic website
12.45 Exhibition and Lunch
PM Sessions
1.45 NPfIT - An update on the national programme
Claire Pacey – Senior Deployment Director for NHS Connecting for Health
2.25 Developing a competitive surgery to survive in the new commercial environment
What is happening in the private sector? Virgin, Tesco, APMS, etc. Why should practices compete? What are the opportunities? The leadership role of the practice manager. The importance of business planning. Making it happen.
Cath McCarthy – Managing Partner, Hanham Health, Bristol
3.15 Exhibition and Afternoon Tea
3.45 Tendering - How do you do it successfully?
Preparation. What does a successful draft tender look like? Innovation. Overcoming the premises challenge. What about the finances? Current procurement process under Equitable Access to primary care process.
Lynn Talbot - Director of McLaren Perry Ltd
4.15 Improving access in practice
Extended hours. Procurement of additional practices
and health centres. Wider responsiveness and access
issues, including those for commissioners & providers.
Dr Mike Warburton - National Director for GP Access, Department of Health
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