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6 June 2024, Bridgewater Hall

Event Overview

Management in Practice Manchester is the home of professional development and collaboration for Practice Managers and Partners in the North West.

The business conference for primary care management teams takes place on 6 June 2024 at the Bridgewater Hall. Tickets for this event are free and you can book your place here.

Register now to join the Management in Practice editorial team and our event supporter, Pulse, in person at an event designed specifically with management teams in mind, where expert speakers share their experiences and impart real world tools you can implement at work.

Who is this event for?

    • Practice/Primary Care Managers
    • GP Partners
    • PCN Clinical Directors and Managers
    • PCN and ICB staff

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. The multi-stream format allows you to pick and choose the talks most relevant to your business aims.

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What will be covered at the event?

  • The future of general practice
  • Employment, HR, legal, finance
  • Wellbeing in practice
  • Tech and innovation
  • Leadership and workforce

What do your peers think of this event?

97% 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

Interested in Exhibiting at, or Sponsoring, at Management in Practice Manchester?

We have a range of options and packages available – contact [email protected] for more information and to discuss your company’s objectives.

Interested in Speaking at Management in Practice Manchester?

Contact [email protected] for more information about speaking opportunities.

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How to get there

The Hall is in the centre of Manchester, easily accessible by public transport and by road.

The nearest rail stations are Deansgate and Oxford Road.

The Hall is in the centre of Manchester, easily accessible by public transport and by road.

Metrolink tram passengers should alight at St Peter’s Square or Deansgate-Castlefield.

The nearest bus stops for major routes into the city centre are St Peter’s Square/Portland Street or Deansgate.

If travelling by car, please allow plenty of time for your journey. For satellite navigation, the Hall’s postcode is M2 3WS. The nearest car parks are Q-Park, NCP Manchester Central, NCP Great Northern or NCP Oxford Street.

Please note all NCPs are now cashless, and payment requires a debit or credit card. 

Stream 1

Stream 2

8:30 am
Registration and Exhibition
9:20 am
Chair’s opening remarks 

Kay Keane
Practice Manager, Urban Village Medical Practice and Director, The IGPM

Chair’s opening remarks 

Lorna Laflin
Deputy Lead, Primary Care Development Programme, RCGP

9:30 am
Stress: The Manual Override 
  • Why positive self-care amongst health and social professionals is important 
  • Key Factors that contribute to well being 
  • Principles that help maintain it whilst juggling so many responsibilities 

Farnaaz Sharief MBE
Chief Executive Manage Your Mind, Senior Fellow (Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management), NHS Clinical entrepreneur, Nationwide Kent and Medway ICB

How productive is your practice? 
  • Setting goals with staff 
  • Reducing ineffective processes  
  • Maintaining momentum throughout the year 

Denise Smith
Practice Manager, Merepark Medical Centre

10:15 am
Legal Essentials for Forward Planning 

Sponsored by:

Running out of space? Expanding your practice  
  • Securing and using NHS England grants 
  • What to do and how to do it  
  • Making the workplace suitable 

Luan Stewart
Practice Manager

Richard Maudsley
RIBA, Director and Architect at Sunderland Peacock and Associates

10:55 am
Exhibition and networking  
11:25 am
Ensuring diversity and inclusion 
  • LGBTQ+ patients  
  • Representing the community in your practice  
  • Reducing bias in staff 

Margaret Ikpoh
Vice Chair of Professional Development, Royal College of General Practitioners

Sponsored session to be confirmed 

Sponsored by:

12:10 pm
Sponsored session to be confirmed

Sponsored by:

Lessons learnt from time in practice   
  • Purposeful recruitment   
  • Still matrix examples 
  • Triage for receptionists   

Valeed Ghafoor
GP Specialist in Emergency, Acute and General Medicine, Northern Care Alliance

12:50 pm
Lunch and Networking  
1:50 pm
Pensions in general practice  
  • Reviewing and analysing the McCloud remedy 
  • What’s changed and what happens now?  

Martin Boaler
Specialist Financial Adviser

Sponsored session to be confirmed (Suvera)
2:35 pm
The new CQC framework 
  • What’s changed and what does it mean for your practice 

Tracy Green
Healthcare Business Consultant

Occupational Health and Med3 ‘Fit’ Notes 
  • Can GPs better utilise Med3 notes to communicate patient work abilities, balancing the impact of ‘health on work’ and ‘work on health’? 
  • Changes around who can issue Fit notes since July 2022 – why does it matter? 

Tarun Gupta
Portfolio NHS GP and Independent Occupational Health Physician

3:20 pm
GP contract announcement 
4:00 pm
Conference Ends

 

*We would like to thank our exhibitors for sponsoring this meeting. Unless stated in your programme, they have had no input into the agenda, speaker selection or content.

**If you allow your badge to be scanned by a sponsor company in the exhibition hall or at sponsored sessions, your details will be shared with that sponsor for them to contact you about their session, 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 contact them to have your data removed or to not have your badge scanned.

Speakers

6 June 2024, Bridgewater Hall

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Speaker enquiries

Aneya Sanders
Senior Conference Producer

[email protected]

+44 (0)20 7214 0509