PMA Workshop
This web workshop provides attendees with the vital skills and techniques for creating the right agenda and leading concise, structured and productive meetings with meaningful outcomes and clear actions. Taking board meeting minutes is time-consuming and requires attention to detail, they are a log of key decisions that future board members can reference. The second part of the session will explore the role of the Chair in leading meetings and ensuring the best outcomes.
Partnerships & Federation includes Partnership Changes & Mergers, Written Agreements Federations, Business & Property Management. This module looks at partnership issues – written agreements and matters relating to partnership changes, including the pitfalls of merging practices. We also focus on Federations and mergers and models for working at scale, which are amongst the most important topics currently facing medical practice and the programme provides full information on developing issues by experts who are dealing with them on a day to day basis. To finish the workshop, we will take a more in-depth look at the considerations around property ownership and property management in the merger and partnership discussions.
This module focuses on the Business Risks and Governance issues that regularly arise in medical practice that are often difficult to deal with. We will focus on how to create competitive, collaborative and commercial advantage for the GP Practice through an understanding of the Risks and Governance issues relevant to General Practice. The module will be delivered as an interactive session with practical guidance to enabling participants to map the techniques onto their own risk and governance profile for their practice. The Tips on managing risk provide useful guidance to enable participants to understand and mitigate the governance requirements, liabilities and risks within General Practice. Group work is provided on all aspects of the programme so that participants develop their understanding of the topics by interacting with colleagues.
Although the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) does not come into force until May 2018, the scope of the changes under the new Regulation means that preparing for the GDPR will be high priority for the next 6 months. GDPR will need to be implemented alongside the New Data Protection Act which will both come into force on 25th May 2018.