Healthcare Conference
Our one-day healthcare conference has been specifically designed for partners and senior managers with responsibility for a number of clients in the sector. Join us and hear from industry experts on the most topical issues in healthcare, share best practice and knowledge, and network with peers.
Who should attend the conference
Mercia's Healthcare Conference is a must-attend event for any accountancy firms with Healthcare clients.
Through this one-day virtual conference, you will get practical advice about all the latest changes and challenges currently facing the healthcare sector. Hear from financial experts on how you can add value to your clients.
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Full conference agenda
9.30am
Welcome And Introduction
Paul Gordon, Atomos
This session will cover:
- 1995/2008/2015 Sections of the Scheme and their peripheral benefits
- Age Discrimination Case – the latest developments and potential timeframes and options
- Annual Allowance and Lifetime Allowance, including potential lump sum changes and requirements
- Partial Retirement / 24-Hour Retirement – including the required criteria, how, when and why.
James Gransby, Azets
James will be covering accounting and tax matters topical in the sector right now. The inaugural year of basis period changes, the impact of high bank interest rates on property ownership, funding constraints leading to challenging times for profits and succession issues for GPs will be some of the topics being covered in this session.
10.55am
Break
Andy Pow, Medics Money
Medics Money will join us to discuss how accountants can support their GP clients.
Oliver Pool, VWV
This session will cover:
- Incorporation of GP practices / other legal structures
- Incorporation of PCNs
- Issues re: Declaration of earnings
- Disputes over premises valuations
- Challenges to green socks clauses and partner performance
Deborah Wood, Moore and Smalley
This session Debbie will give an update on the most recent GP contract announcement and other matters relating to GP contract finance.
1.00pm
Lunch Break
Adam Thompson, Primary Care Surveyors
Adam will give an update on all that is topical on primary care premises. This session will cover the potential changes in surgery values.
2.50pm
Break
This session will provide a topical update on VAT issues in the Healthcare sector.
Mike Blenkharn, UNW LLP
This session will cover the latest news from the dental financial world and other relevant issues.
4.30pm
Close of Conference
Conference speakers
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Paul leads Atomos’s healthcare team, where he uses insights from his more than 20 years’ assisting medical professionals with financial planning. This includes the NHS Pension, Partial Retirement, 24-Hour Retirement, Ill-Health Retirement, and personal planning including protection, mortgages, investments and inheritance tax planning. He works with medical specialist accountants and solicitors to ensure he and his team have up-to-the-minute knowledge of the issues faced by clients. His advice in this area is so highly regarded he is regularly invited to give talks to Trusts, practices and local medical committees, along with recording podcasts and webinars on the ongoing complexities of the NHS Pension. |
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James is an accounts and tax partner dealing exclusively with medical professionals and has worked in the sector for over 20 years. James is a regular contributor to industry press articles having written for Pulse, Practice Management, Medeconomics, Independent Practitioner Today, GP Online, Practice Business, amongst others. James is also a Board member of AISMA. |
Oliver has been acting for GPs practices since 2005 and has been involved in drawing up or amending well over 500 GP partnership deeds. He advises GP practices and helps with all aspects of the partnership relationship, from putting in place the GP partnership deed, to advising on its terms, to dealing with disputes between partners. He also routinely advises on GP mergers and the creation of super partnerships and other new structures for GP practices. He is part of a wider healthcare team at VWV which covers the whole range of services to primary care and includes experts on property matters, litigation, regulatory matters, and employment issues.
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Deborah is the current Chairman of the Moore and Smalley partnership and leads the firm’s specialist healthcare services department. She has specialised in looking after Healthcare Professional clients for over 30 years and is invited to speak at seminars across the country to doctors, their practice managers and fellow accountants on a wide variety of financial management topics affecting the sector. She contributes articles and comments to the Medical Press on a regular basis. Deborah is also Chairman of The Association of Independent Specialist Medical Accountants (AISMA) and a former President of the North West Society of Chartered Accountants. |
Mike, who is a Chartered Certified Accountant and Head of Dental at UNW LLP, has over 10 years’ experience in working with dental professionals. Mike has overall responsibility for over 500 practice clients and is actively involved in advising clients in respect of accounts, practice purchases/sales and restructuring.
Alongside his dental accounting experience, Mike has a wealth of experience in NHS contracts, net pensionable earnings, tax affairs, exit strategies, and retirement planning. He is also a member of NASDAL (National Association of Specialist Dental Accountants and Lawyers) and regularly provides accounting and taxation updates to national specialist healthcare lenders.
One Day Conference
Previous Healthcare Conferences
Explore the programme of our previous Healthcare Conferences:
