Management in Practice Birmingham is taking place on 14 May 2024 and we are inviting Practice Managers, GP Partners, PCN or ICB staff and commissioners to register now to join us there.
Register now to join the Management in Practice editorial team in person at a business conference designed specifically with management teams in mind, where expert speakers share their experiences and impart real world tools you can implement at work.
Our agendas are developed following in-depth research with you our audience as well as industry experts, therefore you can trust that the sessions you attend will be of real value to you and your team.
100% peer recommended
“It was most enjoyable and informative. The topics were relevant to the day-to-day running of the practice. The exhibitors were also very helpful.” – Dr Krishna Srivastava, 2023 attendee
“Good to get out of practice and to hear from different people. The exhibition was relevant and useful. I enjoyed the day!” – Victoria Keys, Business Manager, 2023 attendee
We have a range of options and packages available – contact [email protected] for more information and to discuss your company’s objectives.
Contact [email protected] for more information about speaking opportunities.
* Please note, this information is correct at the current time. Cogora reserve the right to amend content without prior warning.
** We would like to thank our exhibitors for sponsoring this meeting, which includes pharmaceutical companies including Gedeon Richter (UK) Ltd. They have had no editorial input into or control over the agenda, content development or choice of speakers, nor opportunity to influence except for the sponsored symposia presentations.
*** Your delegate badge may, with your permission, be scanned by sponsor companies in the exhibition hall and at sponsored sessions. If you allow your badge to be scanned, you agree for those companies to contact you about their products, events and/or services – some of which may be promotional in nature. If you do not wish to be contacted by our sponsor companies you have the right to not have your badge scanned when visiting a sponsored stand in the exhibition hall or attending sponsored sessions. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting the sponsor.
Book your placeNational Conference Centre, Coventry Road, Hampton in Arden, Solihull, UK
0121 704 2784
The closest train station is Birmingham International which is just a 5 minute taxi drive
Other stations:
Birmingham New Street – 25 minutes drive
Birmingham Snow Hill – 20 minutes drive
Solihull – 10 minutes drive
We do not advise coming by bus.
The venue is on J6 of the M42, follow signs to The National Motorcycle Museum from all approach roads.
Postcode B92 0EJ
There are over 1000 FREE parking spaces on site. Charge points for electric vehicles and disabled parking is also available.
Birmingham City Centre – 20 minutes drive
Central Manchester – 2 hours drive
Central Leeds – 2 hours drive
Central Bristol – 2 hours drive
Central London – 2 hours drive
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Stream 2 |
Stream 3 |
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8:30 am |
Registration and Exhibition |
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9:20 am |
Chair’s opening remarksKay Keane |
Chair’s opening remarksDr Dean Eggitt |
Chair’s opening remarksLorna Laflin |
9:30 am |
Opening Keynote: The cost of living and supporting patients
Alyson McGregor |
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10:15 am |
Dispelling digital healthcare myths: a practical guide for practice managers and GP partners
Jamie Griffin |
HR – what we need to be focusing on
Nikki Masterman |
Reshaping primary care with data
Dr Harry Wyatt Dr Amina Siddiqui |
10:55 am |
Exhibition and networking |
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11:30 am |
What upcoming digital technologies might mean for your practice
Dr Neil Paul |
Reducing staff turnover
Jayne Dewhurst |
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12:15 pm |
From transition to transformation: Maximising the benefits of the NHS cloud telephony journeyNew?
Upgrading?
Dave Mills |
Total reward – pay scales in practice
George Lepine |
2024, the year you must run your practice as a business
Daniel Vincent |
1:00 pm |
Lunch and Networking |
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2:00 pm |
Immunisation: Practice Management Strategies
Stacy Evans |
Lessons learnt from time in practice
Dr Valeed Ghafoor |
Wellbeing for practice managersDr Seema Pattni |
2:45 pm |
GP contract announcement
James Gransby Jim Duggan |
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3:30 pm |
End of conference |
* Please note, this information is correct at the current time. Cogora reserve the right to amend content without prior warning.
** We would like to thank our exhibitors for sponsoring this meeting, which includes pharmaceutical companies including Gedeon Richter (UK) Ltd.
*** Your delegate badge may, with your permission, be scanned by sponsor companies in the exhibition hall and at sponsored sessions. If you allow your badge to be scanned, you agree for those companies to contact you about their products, events and/or services – some of which may be promotional in nature. If you do not wish to be contacted by our sponsor companies you have the right to not have your badge scanned when visiting a sponsored stand in the exhibition hall or attending sponsored sessions. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting the sponsor.
Stacy currently has 35 years’ experience in the NHS. After spending 10 years working with paediatrics, she then gained experience in School Health, with Looked after Children and Leaving Care young people.Stacy spent 12 years in General Practice as a Practice Nurse / Lead Practice Nurse before joining Public Health England as a Screening and Immunisation Coordinator then manager. Over the past five years she has been successful in CCG / ICB Quality and safety forum as Head of Quality and Safety.
Having spent 11 Years as a GP Practice Manager and Partner Daniel has a breath of experience across Primary Care delivery and commissioning. In 2021 he left his partnership to lead Enhanced Primary Care ltd. With a mission to save practices time they have since engaged with over 300 practices and uncovered over £1.5 million of unclaimed income with just 15 minutes of work for the practice.
Jayne initially worked in Financial Services where she special interest in leadership development and coaching & became NLP practitioner. In 2005 she became a Practice Manager in a large GP practice. During this time she was a non medical mentor and undertook undergraduate training. She also held a number of roles in her CCG. Jayne joined the RCGP PCD team in 2015 when the programme was in its infancy. Initially an adviser she became deputy lead in the summer of 2015. Currently Jayne is lead for coaching, mentoring and other HR programmes. She is a Lay representative for NHSE, working with a variety of specialties, including General Practice. She works with NHSE during the recruitment process & assessment panels.
GP Partner @SandbachGPs
Monthly columnist on http://www.digitalhealth.net/
Director of Howbeck Healthcare Limited – Primary care innovators!
Honorary Senior Lecturer School of Management University of Liverpool
Exec GP on South Cheshire & Vale Royal GP Alliance
Director of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership
As the Founder & Managing Director of Inspired HR, Nikki brings over 30 years of experience in HR, Coaching, Leadership, Training and Business to her clients. Over the last 8 years, Nikki has built and transformed Inspired HR into the successful, award winning, innovative, forward-thinking and flourishing nationwide business that it is today. Aside from leading Inspired HR, she is also a: – School Governor – Champion for Neurodiversity and Disabilities in the Workplace – CMC Accredited Civil, Commercial & Workplace Mediator – UCA Certified & Accredited ADHD Coach – Professional Coach and Mentor for HR Professionals and Business Leaders – Certified Disc Profiler – Northeast FSB Council Member Nikki is often described as a “True Force of Nature” and “Inspiring Speaker”.
Alyson is the founder and Director of Altogether Better an NHS national network organisation who offer solutions to the challenges the NHS is facing. Working with practices and PCNs, Altogether Better help teams to increase their capacity and reduce demand by adopting a new model of care to tackle the problems medicine alone cannot fix.
Alyson was voted by the HSJ as one of the top 50 inspirational women leaders in the NHS and was awarded an MBE in the 2021 New Years Honours List for services to Collaborative Practice and Service Development in the NHS. She is a member of the NHS Leadership Academy Faculty with over 11 years board level experience as a Non-Executive Director.
Dr Seema Pattni is a Careers Coach for Female Doctors.
She is a qualified GP and also has a BSc in Neuroscience and Mental Health.
She has worked across the UK and around the world, in the NHS and the private sector.
She has developed and led services in homeless health inclusion, social prescribing and family planning.
A committed NHS IT geek, Dave Mills is the head of Think Healthcare, one of the largest NHS specialist cloud telephony platforms.
Dave has a broad background in the NHS IT sector, starting with half a decade in GP practice management which fuelled a passion to improve IT infrastructure within the NHS for patients benefit.
He has since been involved with various national provider platforms including patient workflow platforms and primary care clinical systems.
His current passion is focussing on improving patient access to GP services via the medium of cloud telephony.
Lorna splits her time working for the RCGP as a Deputy Lead on the Primary Care Development programme and as a Specialist in Field for GP Excellence, the flagship programme of the Greater Manchester Primary Care Provider Board. Lorna’s background is in practice management, and she has almost 20 years’ experience in General Practice and is accredited with the IGPM. Before the COVID pandemic she was a Lay assessor for Health Education England, assessing FY2 doctors applying to start GP training, and has more recently worked as senior consultant on the Good Practice Guidelines team at NECS.
Lorna is a qualified coach and mentor, specialising in professional development. She has an MBA and a post grad qualification in strategic management and leadership and a special interest in Continuous quality improvement (CQI).
Kay is the Practice Manager at Urban Village Medical Practice in Ancoats, Manchester. As well as the usual suite of NHS General Practice services the practice also specialises in addressing those patients facing health inequalities, they run a specialist service for those people experiencing homelessness, an in-house substance misuse service, tissue viability care and have specialist clinicians focussing on those people who find it difficult to access healthcare.
Having been employed within the NHS since being a teenager she has seen lots of changes and developments and worked in various parts of the service. Kay was awarded the National Association of Primary Care “Practice Manager of the Year” in 2017 and has since helped to set up The Institute of General Practice Management, the registered body for all Managers in Primary Care.
Outside of work Kay is a keen allotmenteer where she prefers to grow flowers for the vase. She enjoys weekends away in a campervan and may also occasionally be found dancing in a field at a music festival.
George is a successful change manager with a track record of improving individual contribution, organisation performance, employee engagement and value for money. He has spent 14 years as a consultant following a successful career in human resources and works as a Qualitas Associate. His passion is collaborating with clients to build their vision, mission and values and using these to create people strategies, policies and procedures that make a difference to individual and organisation success. As an executive coach he works with clients to liberate potential and overcome obstacles to progress as well as designing and facilitating leadership development and team building programmes such as the Pathway for Team Performance programme which Qualitas is launching.
Dr Valeed Ghafoor, CEO of General Practice Specialists Ltd, leverages his rich background in emergency and acute medicine alongside his experience as a GP and subsequently managing partner to offer a unique perspective on primary care. His expertise extends to supporting practices and PCNs, utilising ARRS resources and establishing clinical hubs for comprehensive care delivery. Dr. Ghafoor’s nuanced understanding of patient needs and operational intricacies enables him to streamline processes and enhance service provision within primary care settings. With a focus on innovation and collaboration, he spearheads initiatives that optimize resource allocation and foster interdisciplinary teamwork. Through his leadership, General Practice Specialists Ltd thrives as a dynamic force in modern healthcare, championing excellence and accessibility in primary care services.
Dr Mahadev Ramjee M.D, MRCP(UK) is originally from Mauritius and is a GMC registered physician with a background in Stroke and Geriatric Medicine. He is the Chief Medical Officer for Panthera Biopartners. He has expertise as Chief Investigator and Principal investigator in over 60 clinical trials within various therapeutic areas such as cardiovascular risk factor modification, memory loss, chronic pain, metabolic diseases, heart failure , vaccines and many more.