The Business of General Practice

‘The Business of General Practice’, our popular event for healthcare in the South West is back - we're returning to Sandy Park on Wednesday 13th May 2026.

We will bring together the team at Simpkins Edwards and partners from across the healthcare industry for a day packed with practical insight – topics include Integrated Neighbourhood Teams, benchmarking your practice, and real-life experience from a senior GP partner navigating today's challenges.

To find out more about what to expect, you can read about last years event here.

If you’re looking to strengthen your leadership, improve operational efficiency and gain valuable industry insights, this event is for you.

We hope to see you there!

About Simpkins Edwards

Simpkins Edwards are a trusted firm of Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers, based in Devon with clients across the UK. Alongside traditional accounting services, we provide tax consultancy, detailed management accounts, and quarterly strategy meetings, to a wide range of business and individual clients. We empower our clients to confidently make decisions on their businesses and give them the peace of mind to focus on their core priorities. Our 50 years of heritage and expert team affords us strong and lasting relationships with our clients, employees, and the community we work within.

Our Healthcare team work with GP owners across the industry, providing detailed management accounts, KPI analysis & benchmarking, and tax planning & advice. Our commercial approach, including quarterly strategy meetings, allows practice owners to ‘know their numbers’ and feel confident in making decisions. We know it can be a challenge to be a GP, whilst running a practice; Simpkins Edwards offer all the traditional accounting services too, giving you peace of mind to focus on your patients, your team and your business.

Our Team

Seb Beard, Healthcare Partner

Jenna Clark, Director of Healthcare Services

Mark Simic, Managing Partner

Kelly Derham Nester, Director

Info: Teas and coffees will be served at this time.

Info: With 2026/27 funding arrangements still taking shape, Jenna Clark and Kelly Derham Nester will share what is known so far before exploring the evolving landscape of Integrated Neighbourhood Teams. They will share practical examples of Primary Care successfully taking on secondary care contracts, examining what this means for service delivery, collaboration, and the future shape of neighbourhood-based care.

Info: Oliver Pool will look at some of the most common misconceptions he comes across when dealing with partnership deeds, and the partnership relationship generally. Myths to be addressed involve dealing with new partners, passing on pay rises, misconceptions around property ownership, sickness absence costs, and incorporation.

Info: Teas and coffees will be served at this time.

Info: The 10 Year NHS Plan was published last summer. The plan focuses on three shifts: treatment to prevention; hospital to community and analogue to digital. These are not new concepts and most people will recognise their importance. The plan also set out or has led to some significant changes to how the NHS is structured and how it will operate, with a view to enabling the shifts to happen. This session will provide some reflection from the experience of Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and share some thinking about what this means for how we approach the challenges that we all face.

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