| 8:30 AM - 9:20 AM | Registration and exhibition |
| 9:20 AM - 9:30 AM | Chair’s opening remarks | Chair’s opening remarks |
| 9:30 AM - 10:10 AM | Practice mergers: a legal overview
- Different types of mergers
- Key steps and issues to consider
- Common pitfalls and how to avoid them
Sponsored by: | Rooted and ready: building personal and team resilience in modern general practice
- Understanding what resilience looks like in the unique context of general practice leadership
- Creating practical strategies to manage stress, uncertainty, and competing demands
- Creating a culture of support, adaptability, and wellbeing across your team
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| 10:15 AM - 10:55 AM | Invisible disabilities: practical steps to supporting neurodiverse teams and patients
- Understanding the law – defining responsibilities and boundaries for all
- Neurodiversity Screening – understanding the Strengths and Challenges of the mind as a pre-cursor or alternative to diagnosis
- Top tips for supporting your neurodivergent employees and patients
- Real case law and case studies
| Sponsored session to be confirmed Sponsored by: |
| 10:55 AM - 11:25 AM | Exhibition and Networking Please take some time to visit the exhibition where our supporting partners will be delighted to speak with you.
Thanks to their support, the event is free to attend. |
| 11:25 AM - 12:05 PM | Sponsored session to be confirmed Sponsored by: | Growing innovation: lessons from Elm Tree Medical Centre
- Exploring the practical innovations Elm Tree Medical Centre has introduced to improve efficiency, access, and patient care
- Understanding how leadership, team culture, and data-driven approaches helped drive sustainable change
- Creating inspiration for what’s possible in your own practice — from Google's top-rated practice!
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| 12:10 PM - 12:50 PM | Care navigation: taking a different approach that improves patient equity and demand into practices
- How care navigation currently works and what needs to change
- The care navigator and patient experience - how to reach a best for both combination
- Practical ways to reduce health inequalities and utilise the wider primary care eco-system
| Sponsored session to be confirmed Sponsored by: |
| 12:50 PM - 3:50 PM | Lunch and Networking Please take some time to visit the exhibition where our supporting partners will be delighted to speak with you.
Thanks to their support, the event is free to attend. |
| 1:50 PM - 2:30 PM | NHS 10-year plan: NHS App, digital and AI
- Understanding the digital priorities in the NHS 10-year plan
- Using AI and digital tools in general practice
- Learn how practices can integrate NHS-approved tools to enhance care, save time, and support workforce pressures
| Is there a business case for that? Using resources to improve access and keep staff
- Increasing patient intake using social prescribers
- Improving access to general practice using a 6-week window for appointments
- Inspiring staff loyalty and valuing your team
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| 2:35 PM - 3:15 PM | Understanding the financial impact of the 2025/26 GMS contract
- Discussions around the 2025/26 GMS contract, accounts and financial health of the practice and the implications/expectations for future accounting
- Tax planning from profit increases to pension adjustments, understanding tax liabilities, McCloud and other current tax topics
| Support from your LMC
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How the LMC can help you: representation, mediation, guidance
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Case studies of how LMCs have supported practices in crisis or transition
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What’s happening locally: regional priorities and pressures
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