Healthcare Conference 2022

Deborah is the current Chairman of the Moore and Smalley partnership and leads the firm’s specialist healthcare services department.

She has specialised in looking after Healthcare Professional clients for over 30 years and is invited to speak at seminars across the country to doctors, their practice managers and fellow accountants on a wide variety of financial management topics affecting the sector. She contributes articles and comments to the Medical Press on a regular basis.

Deborah is also Chairman of The Association of Independent Specialist Medical Accountants (AISMA) and a former President of the North West Society of Chartered Accountants.

James is an accounts and tax partner dealing exclusively with medical professionals and has worked in the sector for over 20 years. James is a regular contributor to industry press articles having written for Pulse, Practice Management, Medeconomics, Independent Practitioner Today, GP Online, Practice Business, amongst others. James is also a Board member of AISMA.

Mark specialises in advising primary care providers and collaborations on commercial, transactional and corporate matters, with particular expertise in advising on contracting in primary care. During his career in primary care, Mark has drafted several iterations of the national primary medical services contracts and the primary medical services schedule of the model NHS Standard Contract.

His work focuses on Integrated Care Alliances and Systems, contractual and regulatory matters, Primary Care Networks and corporate vehicles for PCNs, mergers and acquisitions, GP Federations, collaborations, super-partnerships and GP practice incorporation. Mark is also a specialist dental solicitor with expertise in the acquisition and sale of dental practices as well as advising dental schools and local dental committees on a range of primary dental contract matters.

Kate is a specialist Healthcare Relationship Director. Kate has worked at Lloyds Bank within the specialist healthcare team since 2015 with banking experience spanning over 16 years.

Kate works with single and multi-site GP practices across the North West. She manages all aspects of client’s banking requirements from day to day transactional needs to property funding for buy-in, refinance, and GP developments. She also works alongside other specialist colleagues who provide services from personal wealth advice to specialist insurance and (green) vehicle fleets.

Paul is a Medical Specialist Chartered Financial Adviser at MacArthur Gordon. Paul’s role is split between advising clients, speaking and assisting other advisory firms regarding their clients and the NHS Pension. He regularly liaises with the NHS Pensions Agency, medical specialist accountants, medical specialist solicitors and HMRC to ensure continued understanding of all aspects of the on-going changes that could impact clients.

Bob is a tax partner with MHA MacIntyre Hudson and is deeply involved in tax training.

However, he is not just a trainer as he has remained involved in client facing matters so he has seen the risk from the tax engagement grow over the years. He has a wide range of tax knowledge and has been lecturing on a range of tax related subjects for over 25 years including the PII aspects. He has found that tax has become ten times as complex since he started lecturing.

Bob has written a Tax Procedures Manual to help reduce risk for the tax practice and has regularly contributed to articles on technical tax subjects over the years.

Alan is a Chartered Accountant and partner in UNW LLP chartered accountants where he is head of the Dental Business Unit which looks after over 400 dentist clients. Alan writes regularly for the dental press, and presents at BDA seminars.

He is a member of the National Association of Specialist Dental Accountants & Lawyers (NASDAL) and a member of the technical committee, and chair of the NHS Superannuation committee. He is also a member of the Association of Specialist Providers to Dentistry (ASPD). Alan is the editor of the quarterly NASDAL goodwill survey which analyses all member client practice sales, purchases, and valuations.