How To…Understand GMS & PMS Contracts, Finance and Partnerships in General Practice

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How To...Understand GMS & PMS Contracts, Finance and Partnerships in General Practice

Event Summary

This FULLY FUNDED webinar is aimed at GPs, Practice & PCN Management, Partners and decision makers in Wessex Practices

Tuesday, 3 November 2026
09:30 - 12:30
Zoom Online Event

Main Contact

Lead Team
02380 253874
This training course is accessible for wheelchair users.
If you have any communication or mobility needs that the event organisers need to be aware of please contact them in advance of the course to let them know.

Event Speakers & Trainers

Mrs Michelle Lombardi
Mrs Michelle Lombardi
Speaker/Trainer
Dr Edd Rendell
Dr Edd Rendell
Speaker/Trainer
Dr Will Howard
Dr Will Howard
Speaker/Trainer
Mr Adrian Cousens
Mr Adrian Cousens
Speaker/Trainer
Mr Oliver Pool
Mr Oliver Pool
Speaker/Trainer
This training will be run over Zoom. To participate you will need to install Zoom on your device, and ensure it is has a microphone, speaker, and camera. Please Note: Some trainers will no longer allow you to stay on the call if you do not have your camera operating, without good reason. If this is the case you will not be reimbursed for the course.

Log in to Zoom 09:15 session runs 09:30 to 12:30

Introduction

Wondering how general practice actually works?Β If you answered 'yes' toΒ this question - you are not alone. As we all know, this is a time of massive change and upheaval with many people joining GP practices and PCNsΒ for the first time and also many taking on more responsibilities.

This FULLY FUNDED webinar isΒ aimed at GPs, Practice & PCN Management, Partners and decision makers in Wessex Practices.

This is a practical session which will get to the bottom of exactly what you need to know with the help of the Wessex LMCs' team.Β 

Aims

To provide participants with a practical understanding of how general practice operates, including the contractual, financial, partnership and legal foundations that underpin primary care.

Objectives

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

  • Develop a clearer understanding of how general practice is structured and operates within the NHS.
  • UnderstandΒ what is required of practices under GMS & PMS contracts.
  • Gain an overview of the financial principles underpinning general practice, including income, expenses, profits and accounts.
  • Understand key features of GP partnerships, including partnership agreements and associated legal considerations.

Content

We will be covering:

  • NHS contracts
    • Unpicking the GMS & PMSΒ contracts.
    • What are practices required to do?
  • Finance
    • Partnership income
    • Expenses
    • Profits
    • Accounts
  • Partnerships
    • Partnership agreements
    • Premises: key considerations
    • Legal considerations

This will be a live and interactive session so you can ask questions of the speakers and hear the questions and concerns of your colleagues. Do join us as we unpick the detail of exactly how General Practice works and dispel some myths along the way.

Previous Delegate Feedback

"I wish I'd had an opportunity to attend this as soon as I started in Primary Care!"

The session is being recorded and will be available to watch back free of charge afterwardsΒ here.

Event Speakers & Trainers

Mrs Michelle Lombardi
Mrs Michelle Lombardi
Director of Primary Care

Since joining Wessex LMCs in 2015 Michelle has brought her knowledge and experience in practice management, commissioning and contracting roles to support practices.

Dr Edd Rendell
Dr Edd Rendell
Medical Director & GP

Edd qualified from Southampton University in 2002 and undertook a medical rotation at Salisbury District Hospital. After a year of travel and working abroad he returned to the same area to complete GP training. Edd has worked as both a Locum and a Partner around Salisbury and just prior to joining Wessex LMCs worked for BSW Clinical Commissioning Group as a Locality Clinical Lead (Wiltshire). Edd is also a GP Appraiser.

Dr Will Howard
Dr Will Howard
Medical Director & GP Retainer

Will is a GP in Hampshire where was a Partner from 2002-2023, and he now works as a Retainer GP. He works in Coastal Medical Partnership which is a large training practice covering 34k patients in Southwest Hants, on the border with Dorset. He is a trainer and had been the Executive Partner for Coastal until he joined the LMC as a Medical Director in 2021. Will trained in London qualifying from UCL and Middlesex Medical School in 1997, and has worked in Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire as a GP.

Mr Adrian Cousens
Mr Adrian Cousens
Trainer / Rep

Adrian Cousens is Partner at Azets. Adrian spends his entire time working with GP practice, doctors, and other associated medical businesses, such as federations, PCNs, and the personal companies of GPs. He has specialised in the primary care sector since 2012.

Adrian provides specialist advice to doctors and their practices on an extensive range of financial and strategical matters including practice mergers, drawings projections, property ownership and funding, changes in partners and associated capital balances, tax planning, pensions tax, and VAT issues within PCNs to name just a few.

Mr Oliver Pool
Mr Oliver Pool
Partner

Oliver is a partner in the Commercial team at Veale Wasbrough Vizards LLP (VWV) with particular expertise in healthcare.

Oliver specialises in partnership agreements, mergers, superparnterships, network agreements for PCNs, and other general commercial advice to GP practices and PCNs. He has worked almost exclusively for GP practices since 2005, from single handers to very large (60+ partner) super partnerships.  He has advised on over 500 partnership agreements for GP practices, and over 200 GP mergers.

Price List 

Name

Description

Price (Inc VAT)

All GPs and members of staff working within GP practices in Wessex LMCs’ catchment area

This option is for everyone working in a GP practice in Wessex LMC's catchment area, that does not fit into one of the other options on offer.

£00.00

Non Members

This is the cost if you are not working in a practice in the Wessex LMCs' catchment area. £250.00

Waiting List

Please be advised there are spaces available on this course unless it states otherwise. If a course is full you will be given the option to book on the waiting list. If you are on the waiting list and a place becomes available, you will be notified automatically via email, you do NOT need to contact Wessex LMCs. 

Refunds

All delegate fees are non-refundable, however, if it has been agreed that a refund is possible, it will be subject to an administration charge of £5 for delegate fees of £100 or less, or £10 for delegate fees more than £100.

Attendance Details

In certain circumstances, we will share details of attendance or non-attendance with the person who booked and/or funded this course for the delegate. If you have any objection to your attendance status being shared, please can you contact Louise Greenwood (Wessex LMCs Director of Education & Training) at least 48 hours before the start of the training at louise.greenwood@wessexlmcs.org.uk

Sponsorship

This event may be sponsored so companies have the opportunity to promote their product(s) at the start of the meeting. No sponsors have been involved in the selection of speakers, agenda items, or any other matters relating to this training. Your name and practice will be shared with the sponsor representative, but not your email address.

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