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Top tips to maximise income from your surgery premises
Could your building earn you more in these challenging financial times? Bryn Morgan provides some tips to consider.
Watch how you hire advisers
Solicitor Robert McCartney has a warning to everyone who works as or who uses freelance workers – including ‘independent’ doctors.
Developing and improving your surgery premises
Bryn Morgan, a partner in the healthcare law firm Hempsons, specialises in advising GPs on property matters. In this article he provides some guidance on improving your premises.
Is your primary care network ready for the future?
After three years of being a primary care network (PCN), most have developed a way of making decisions, sharing the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) staff and the costs, as well as distributing any surpluses.
Are you using the right business structure?
Doctors’ accountants have regularly reported in Independent Practitioner Today about the main types of business structures for your practice and the key differences between them.
The paperwork you have to cough up
Documents and their disclosure are a key component of every case Vicky Rowlands and Emma Summerfield work on as clinical negligence solicitors.
Double jeopardy faced by doctors
2023 – a year of change at the GMC? The council is set to lose its power to appeal fitness-to-practise proceedings.
Trust registration service and the impact on GP partnership property
Since 2017 trustees have had obligations to register and provide information about trusts and their beneficiaries to HMRC’s Trust Registration Service (the TRS).
PCN companies and the provision of ARRS
Justin Cumberlege, a Partner in the healthcare law firm Hempsons, considers points at issue in the provision of additional roles reimbursement scheme staff by primary care networks.
Health and Care Act 2022: What it means for GP practices
The Health and Care Bill received Royal Assent on 28 April and is now the Health and Care Act 2022. In this article, Justin Cumberlege explores what it might mean for the future of GP practices.
When you’re asked to go to an inquest
In the first of a new three-part inquest series, Thorrun Govind explains the inquest process and what happens if you are called to attend – with additional material from James Down.
Judgment in BMA / NHSPS Service Charges Dispute
The High Court has released its long-awaited judgment in five “test cases” where GP practices, with the support of the BMA, have challenged service charges demanded by NHS Property Services Ltd.
The legal duties of maintaining a firm
Many businesses are choosing to limit their liability by operating as corporate vehicles instead of as sole traders or partnerships.
Property ownership on a partner’s retirement
Hannah Lawton, a solicitor from specialist healthcare law firm Hempsons, provides a reminder that you must ensure that a retiring partner has been removed from the property ownership and released from any mortgages.