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  • 5 Ways NHS Trusts benefit from Consultant Partnerships (LLPs)

    5 Ways NHS Trusts benefit from Consultant Partnerships (LLPs)

    Unlocking Efficiency and Expertise: 5 Ways NHS Trusts benefit from Consultant Partnerships (LLPs) The NHS faces unprecedented challenges. Balancing patient care with financial pressures requires innovative solutions. Consultant partnerships (LLPs) are now proven to be a powerful tool for NHS Trusts to navigate these complexities. Read on to find out how NHS Trusts can benefit…

  • Insourcing or outsourcing?  What is the difference?

    Insourcing or outsourcing? What is the difference?

    Consultant partnerships (LLPs) working in an NHS Trust – is this insourcing or outsourcing? Insourcing The term “insourcing” has become a common term within the NHS recently. Typically it is used to describe an arrangement where a Trust contracts with an external clinical provider of services, but where the provider delivers their clinical services using…

  • Do I really need to outsource my medical billing?

    Do I really need to outsource my medical billing?

    What is the benefit of outsourcing your billing and collections? You may be thinking that you are a relatively new consultant with not much private work so you’ll save the expense of outsourcing your medical billing and collections and do it yourself.  Which of course is totally do-able and there are many consultants who do…

  • Limited Liability Partnerships – your questions answered

    Limited Liability Partnerships – your questions answered

    The interest in medical limited liability partnerships (LLPs) has been increasing over the past few years, and now in particular a partnership can be a very effective model to help hospitals with post-Covid recovery plans.  However, there is an understandable lack of detailed information amongst doctors. These are some helpful answers to some of the…

  • Lockdown – is the tide turning for private practice?

    Lockdown – is the tide turning for private practice?

    The tide may be starting to turn.  There is an increasing volume of patients searching online for access to private healthcare and it is therefore more important than ever for you and your practice to be accessible to patients. Patients are struggling to access NHS doctors, and reassurance and accessibility to a consultant is a…

  • Longer is Stronger

    Longer is Stronger

    Longer is Stronger – Password Tips We thought it would be helpful to highlight some points about passwords within a medical private practice and how to protect your data.  Even more importantly that of your private patients. As we know, cyber security is a hot topic with the recent introduction of GDPR and the numerous…

  • Planting seeds to help with growing your private practice

    Planting seeds to help with growing your private practice

    There are many similarities between gardening and growing your private practice. Really, you think?  Not quite sure where I am going with this… When you buy a house maybe the garden needs some work. Maybe you already have a garden but it needs redesigning or is overgrown and needs some TLC.  What do you do…

  • Is your private practice a medical practice or a business….or both?

    Is your private practice a medical practice or a business….or both?

    When doctors reach a certain point in their career in the NHS, the natural next step for many is to set up a private medical practice and start seeing patients privately. And why is this? Well mostly it’s because consultants care about looking after patients. Some also do it for the kudos it brings and…

  • 5 Easy Steps to Earn more than £5m in your Private Practice

    5 Easy Steps to Earn more than £5m in your Private Practice

    I imagine because you’re reading this, the bold headline grabbed your attention. And totally understandable – who wouldn’t want to build their practice to be worth £5m? However, I’m afraid the purpose of this blog is not to tell you how you can build your clinical practice to the value of £5m (SORRY!), but rather…