Specialist medical accountant David Lockitt* offers some tips on checking the practice’s monthly statements for payments and deductions With the increasing reliance on the calculation of practice payments based on data automatically extracted from the practice’s records, and also changes in when income is paid, it is essential that practices review their GMS/PMS statements on…

How do we sum up 2020? Do we really want to look back over the year? Well, January and February started out as per normal with the usual practice management pressures – PCN, annual leave, salaries, and no mention of pandemics or face coverings. In fact, it’s interesting to note that the first Practice Index…

As the deadline for the submission of tax returns for 2019/2020 looms on 31st January 2021, many practices are unaware of their income and expenditure as part of a PCN. To assist in ensuring member practices are declaring correctly,  The Association of Independent Specialist Medical Accountants (AISMA) and the healthcare group of the Institute of…

There was a headline in the GP press recently that stated that, in real terms, GP partners’ income in 2018/19 was 10% below the figure recorded a decade earlier in 2008/9 (according to “official” data for England). But as is always the case with statistics, averages never tell the whole story. I know of practices,…

Many practices are under pressure financially following COVID-19. Specialist medical accountant Sally Sidaway offers ten tips on how to maintain profits in challenging times. 1 – Drug profit levels Even for non-dispensing practices, having good internal controls and a solid buying policy for drugs are essential. Make sure everything used is claimed for and that…

Final pay controls were introduced in 2014 to stop the abuse of the NHS Pension Scheme. Practices can face huge charges if they fall foul of the rules. Specialist medical accountant James Gransby explains. Many practice managers are unaware of final pay controls and the impact the resulting charges could have on their practice’s profitability.…

24-hour retirement allows doctors to draw their NHS pension and then return to work. Specialist medical accountant James Gransby explains what this means for GP partners. How it works For those in the 1995 section of the NHS pension scheme, legislation requires a GP to break their contract for a period of 24 hours (a…