How the Budget may affect you

Autumn Budget 2024. Check out the Budget changes set to affect doctors in private practice. Specialist medical accountant and Independent Practitioner Today columnist Richard Norbury gives a quick-read round-up. In the first Budget for The Labour Party since 2010, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced £40bn of tax rises with most of this coming from a rise […]...

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New MINI remains great fun to drive

Doctor on the Road: Mini Cooper S The MINI remains a fun car at heart – just as it...

Don’t sit back and wait for patients

Reflections on the UK self-pay market – can we be optimistic about growth prospects? Liz Heath, author of market analyst...

Be extra careful using social media

Social media can be a great tool to promote your independent practice – provided you follow a few simple...

Selling this city’s expertise abroad

Healthcare London is a unique collaborative of London’s leading private healthcare providers and teaching hospitals that have come together...
 

Teaming with ideas

News of a new toolkit to help consultants in private practice get the most of multidisciplinary team working was...

Doctors’ data to be issued by default

Publishing consultants’ activity data. The Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) works to support consultants and hospitals to comply with...

Understand what your patient wants

What can you do if a patient is unsatisfied with the outcome of their consultation and refuses to pay?...

Care-givers need help in their jobs

As people are living longer, the demographic who care for family members is shifting. The latest Bupa Wellbeing Index...

How to plan a new clinic building

Troubleshooters With increasing numbers of consultants considering how to turn their dreams for a private practice clinic into reality,...

Ditch the emotion when you invest

Investing is not easy – particularly when all investors are tempted to act on irrational impulses. Guy Beck highlights the...