Session 1
Understanding the service provider models and practice issues: implications for practice revenues, partnership structures and the incomes of equity partners
- How has primary care changed in recent years?
- Can the partnership model survive? Is the partnership agreement robust or flawed?
- Retirement of GPs
- Recruitment & succession planning
- Composition of partnerships
- Impact of Primary Care Networks
- ICS/ICBs
- Premises Directions
Presenters:
Adam Thompson, Director, Primary Care Surveyors
Dr Mark Gaffney, Senior Partner, Chairman of the Victoria Medical Centre and Clinical Director of the Victoria PCN
Session 2
Review of premises
- What is the primary care estate like?
- Is the current estate fit for purpose – fit for the increasing role of technology and digital? Fit for a post-COVID-19 world?
- What has changed?
- Confidentiality
- Infection control – lessons from COVID-19
- New build opportunities – balancing patient and staff experience through design and specification
- Footfall
- Patients’ acceptance of new ways
Presenters:
Adam Thompson, Director, Primary Care Surveyors
Gareth Jenkins, Director and Architect, studio four architects ltd
Session 3
Development and redevelopment opportunities and site values
- Requirement for new premises
- What size?
- How much does a new medical centre cost?
- NHS approval process
- Methods of ownership of premises
- Lease or own – third party landlord; where partners own the freehold of the practice premises
- What lease terms
- Asset versus liability
- Creating space for long-term value
- Investor appetite – deals recently done – returns – outlook and opportunities
- How major investors react to shocks like COVID-19 and the attack on Ukraine. Lessons from past events
- Banking appetite for the primary care sector
- Alternative use values and opportunities
- Anticipating the future
- Interest rates and inflation
Presenters:
Adam Thompson, Director, Primary Care Surveyors
Jon Webb, Development Director, Assura PLC