“This stream has a wealth of practical, case-based advice and solutions for busy practice managers, business managers and GPs to help you cope with the day-to-day pressures of running a practice in a rapidly transforming NHS landscape. The stream aims to support you to run a more profitable, efficient, resilient, digitally-enabled practice and to ensure that your career goes from strength to strength in the brave new world of primary care at scale. By the time of our conference, the NHS 10-year plan may well be published, setting out how the NHS will spend the Government’s £20 billion birthday gift to the NHS. How much of this money will filter down to general practice and how should it be invested? Attend the Practice Management stream to be updated on this issue and more.

The NHS is becoming ever-more complex with first the introduction of Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships and now the drive to develop advanced Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) to join-up NHS and social care services and finances across healthcare economies. Strengthened general practice and primary care is seen to sit in the heart of the new ICSs and to hold the key to their success. NHS England is encouraging the formation of primary care networks within these new systems to underpin them and enable more care to be delivered outside hospitals. But what does all this mean to your practice and patients? What are the options for working at scale and how can you team up with other local practices to ensure a collective voice and influence on the new ICS boards?

Keep up to speed on the rapidly changing NHS landscape with sessions explaining the basics of STPs, ICSs and the opportunities and challenges they pose for practices. Also, benefit from sessions sharing expert advice and first-hand experience on the legal, governance and financial challenges around mergers and super-partnerships. Speakers will arm you with the knowledge you need to navigate the process smoothly and to protect the interests of your practice, staff and patients every step of the way.

Other sessions in the Practice Management stream will be covering the practicalities and benefits of introducing new roles in to general practice including physician associates, care navigators and clinical pharmacists, with advice on how to get through some of those common sticking points in the process. There will be tips from the national Time to Care programme on immediate actions you can take to free up time in your practice and a workshop on mitigating the time and expense of preparing for CQC inspection and maximising your chances of achieving the coveted ‘Outstanding’ rating.

This stream will also cover how to harness the power of data to drive quality and efficiency improvements and workforce transformation. All issues, options and conundrums around GP premises will be addressed in sessions delivered by finance, legal and primary care premises experts and there will be a useful talk on the ins and outs of the ever-more complex NHS pension scheme, updates to be aware of and traps to avoid.

Finally, don’t miss our lively debate on the future of practice management with our inspiring line-up of three very experienced practice managers who are redefining the boundaries their profession.”