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Exclusive Private work for NHS GPs
  • Article
  • 04 Oct 2024
  • Oliver Pool
Over the past months I have had several enquiries from practices and LMCs on the theme of private work and how GPs can do more of it. So what are the constraints on GPs doing private work and can one get round them?
Exclusive Cash flows – what you need to know
  • Article
  • 25 Jun 2024
  • Sam Edwards
Sally Sidaway and Lisa Pennington discuss how you can help GPs master their practice’s cash flows.
Exclusive Disclosure of GP earnings – how enforceable is it?
  • Article
  • 28 Jun 2023
  • Oliver Pool
The law that says GPs have to declare their earnings above a certain threshold has now been brought into force. But how enforceable is it really? I wonder how many GPs will choose to comply.
Exclusive GP Practice cashflow and sustainability
  • Article
  • 14 Jun 2023
  • Steve Cosford
How GP Practice accountants need to be advising their clients, now that costs are increasing and profits are reduced.
Exclusive Topical issues to consider for GP partnership clients
  • Article
  • 15 Feb 2023
  • Sally Sidaway (FCCA), Medical Director, Morris Crocker Chartered Accountants
I am not sure that we have ever been in more turbulent times in Primary Care General Practice and our role in helping practices to weather the storm has never been more important than it is now.
Exclusive Most GP practices don't need to register with TRS - but some should do
  • Article
  • 31 Jan 2023
  • Oliver Pool, Partner, Veale Wasbrough Vizards LLP
GP practices and those acting for them will have noticed emails warning about the need to register with the new Trusts Registration Service (TRS).
Exclusive Additional information being requested by banks and lenders
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  • 29 Apr 2022
  • Karen Flowers, Medical Client Director, Morris Crocker Chartered Accountants
As GP practice accountants we have always been asked to provide certain confirmation details to banks and lenders. Until recently this has typically involved completing a lender’s Accountant’s Certificate which confirms an individual’s income details, or simply sending copies of the last three years’ ‘SA302’s’ (the tax calculation that accompanies a personal tax return).
Exclusive Current GP practice topical accounting matters
  • Article
  • 28 Jan 2022
  • Sally Sidaway
Greater funding into PCN's means that a number of issues need to be considered when advising clients.
Exclusive The financial implications of practice mergers
  • Article
  • 27 Sep 2021
  • Sally Sidaway, Director of Medical Services, RSM UK Tax and Accounting Limited
With ever changing pressures on Primary Care both from patient demand, GP and staff recruitment , and Government requirements many practices continue to contemplate a merger.
Exclusive Primary Care Support England GP Payments and Pensions Portal
  • Article
  • 20 Sep 2021
  • Lisa Pennington, Director, MHA Moore and Smalley
Since Primary Care Support England (PCSE) launched its new GP Payments and Pensions portal in June 2021 practice managers and GPs have experienced a number of problems.
Exclusive PCSE Online - GP Payments and pensions (GPPP)
  • Article
  • 19 Jul 2021
  • Shirley Whittle FCCA, Director, Lentells Limited
A new online payments service from PCSE launched on 1 June 2021. The online system allows practices and GP’s working in general practice to access a range of services to help manage payments and pensions administration.
Exclusive “What seems to be the problem?” “My phone told me to come”
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  • 13 Jul 2021
  • Steven Pritchard, Partner, Menzies
GP’s have long bemoaned the internet from which patients not only make their own, normally incorrect, diagnoses, but from which they also try to instruct the Doctor as to what their treatment should be. But what is coming next?
Exclusive Financial tips for GPs as they begin to emerge from Covid-19 lockdown
  • Article
  • 05 Jun 2020
  • Sally Sidaway
All businesses will need to take lessons learned over the last few weeks into their future and our GP Practice clients, and Primary Care as a wider spectrum, will be no exception to this. So, what can we advise them to help the thought process on the financial aspects?
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