Healthcare spring conference

  • 08 March 2012 10:00 -  17:00
    Chartered Accountants' Hall, London, EC2R 6EA   (map)
  • Fully booked

***This event is now fully booked. If you would like to be added to our waiting list should a place become available, please email events@icaew.com.***

Ensure you're up to date with the latest changes in healthcare with experts from the industry preparing you for 2012.

Why you should attend

Hear from our expert speakers about the upcoming issues for the year ahead, including HMRC powers and how they are affecting your sector, NHS pensions, and the coalition government's reform of tax. Support your clients and make sure you fully understand the strategic changes happening in healthcare.

Tap into industry expertise from speakers including Bob Trunchion, Tax Principal, MacIntyre Hudson LLP and Ross Mathieson, Scheme Compliance Manager, NHS Pensions Division – and network with your colleagues to find out what changes are impacting on your sector.

Using a mix of strategic updates, breakout sessions and technical guidance, ensure you're at your most confident with:

  • NHS Pensions
  • Tax reform
  • Partnership disputes
  • Healthcare Confidence Index
  • The new NHS Commissioning Board

Event programme

  • 10.00
    Registration
  • 10:20
    Chairman's welcome and introduction
  • 10:30
    Partnership disputes - Everybody likes a good fight - or do they?
    • Warning and danger signs - keeping watch   
    • Diversionary approaches - heading off the problem
    • Weapons and armour - strategy and tactics
    • Negotiating a settlement - reaching a conclusion
    • Fighting to the death - if litigation is inevitable; and
    • Cover - what support you can offer.

    Robert Capper, Partner, Harrison Clark LLP

  • 11:20
    Refreshments
  • 11:40
    NHS Pensions
    • Annual allowance/tax
    • Tiered contributions
    • GP pension certificates
    • How the media perceive and report on GPs
    • Future government policy 
    • Any Questions? With input from Paul Cottis, HMRC

    Ross Mathieson, Scheme Compliance Manager, NHS Pensions Division and Irene Goh, Scheme Compliance Unit, NHS Pensions.

  • 13:10
    Lunch
  • 14:10
    Keynote address

    Perspectives on the politics around NHS and wider healthcare reform. 
    Nick Seddon, Deputy Director and lead healthcare researcher, Reform

  • 14:40
    Banking update & the Healthcare Confidence Index
    • HealthCare Confidence Index – second wave results preview
    • Interest rate update
    • Banking update for doctors, dentists, pharmacies, and care homes.

    Ian Crompton, Head of HealthCare Banking Services, Lloyds TSB Commercial

  • 15:10
    Refreshments
  • 15:30
    Tax update in the healthcare sector
    • HMRC powers and how these are continuing to affect the health sector
    • Tax implications of the healthcare reforms including effects on structures
    • Pensions and superannuation – an update and how these can be affected by different structures
    • Q&A discussion

    Bob Trunchion, Tax partner with MHA MacIntyre Hudson LLP and head of tax training, MacIntyre Hudson Advisory Services LLP

  • 16:50
    Chair's closing remarks
  • 17:00
    Close

Speakers

  • Bob Trunchion

    Bob Trunchion is tax partner with MHA MacIntyre Hudson LLP and head of tax training, MacIntyre Hudson Advisory Services LLP

    Bob qualified as an ICAEW Chartered Accountant with Coopers and Lybrand (now PWC) where he specialised in corporate taxes until his move to MHA MacIntyre Hudson. He has a wide range of tax knowledge and lectures on a range of subjects including the tax implications of buying and selling companies, capital tax planning, trusts and share valuation work.

    He is also a specialist in a number of industries or niches such as solicitors, farmers and the medical profession, and on the professional indemnity insurance aspects of tax work. He continues to be involved with clients on both a consultancy and portfolio basis.

  • Ross Mathieson

    Ross is one of four Scheme Compliance Managers based at NHS Pensions (Fleetwood). He works closely with the Department of Health and other stakeholders. His team's remit includes; GPs, General Dental Practitioners, APMS, Social Enterprise, Added Years/Additional Pension, Death Benefits, Non-compliant NHS employers (including fraud) and Pensions Ombudsman cases.  

    Ross has worked at NHS Pensions for 18 years including a short spell as the manager of the NHS Injury Benefits Scheme.

  • Paul Cottis

    Paul Cottis is a member of the HMRC Pensions Policy team. His first involvement in pensions legislation was working on the A-day pension changes. More recently Paul has been part of the HMRC team working on the restriction of pensions tax relief.

    Paul is based in the HMRC Pension Schemes Services office in Nottingham and acts as link between the operational team in Nottingham and his policy colleagues who are based in London.

  • Robert Capper

    Robert Capper is Partner, Harrison Clark LLP. Robert heads up the commercial department which offers a range of non-transactional services commercial agreements and contracts, intellectual property and information technology as well as acting for partnerships. The department is recognised by the prestigious Chambers and Partners legal directory for partnership work. Robert himself specialises in partnership work having acted for professional partnerships and doctors' practices in particular for over 12 years and is personally recognised by Chambers and Partners as a leading solicitor in the area.

  • Nick Seddon

    Nick is Deputy Director of Reform. Before joining Reform, Nick was Head of Communications at Circle, an employee-owned healthcare company. He has written op-eds and features for The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Economist, The Spectator and Time Out, among others. Nick has published a number of books and reports, including Who Cares?, about charities, and Quite Like Heaven?, about healthcare. Nick is a member of the Advisory Board of the National Council of Voluntary Organisations, a member of the Advisory Board of Cass Business School, and until recently Chairman of the Directory of Social Change, an independent charity. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts.

  • Ian Crompton

    Ian Crompton joined Lloyds in 1976 and has undertaken various roles throughout his career including basic back office branch work, training, branch management, product development and offshore banking. After a period of senior management in business centres he started to specialise and set up what is now Lloyds HealthCare Banking in 2004.
     
    In 2009 Ian established the Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) Primary Care Forum; a unique group of business and clinical professionals to gain cross sector insight into trends and support the bank in setting appropriate credit policy and service offerings. In September 2011 the Forum launched the LBG Primary Care Confidence Index which provides a unique insight into healthcare practitioners’ confidence in the business of HealthCare.

  • Irene Goh

    Irene has been extensively involved with the annual allowance tax changes, from the initial Government consultations through to the implementation of the new requirements.  

    She has over 25 years of experience in the pensions industry, was elected honorary director of the Chartered Insurance Institute Technicians in Insurance, and is a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute.

Costs

  • Group rates

  • Healthcare Group subscribers:

    £250.00 + VAT
  • Join the group* and attend the conference

  • ICAEW member rate:

    £65.00 + £250.00 + VAT
  • Non-member rate:

    £110.00 + £250.00 + VAT
  • Event only costs

  • ICAEW member rate:

    £375.00 + VAT
  • Non-member rate:

    £500.00 + VAT
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