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Robert McCartney is Managing Director of McCartney Healthcare Associates Ltd and an expert on what it takes to make practice mergers work. A solicitor by background Robert has been involved in a large number of successful mergers and, in this podcast, he explores with Ben the challenges, benefits and costs of two practices merging and looks at the enhanced governance requirements of merged practices.

Show Notes

Robert moves from being a solicitor into the NHS (36secs)

Robert becomes an independent advisor on commercial issues to GP practices (1min 25secs)

He develops a broad focus to support practices in mergers (1min 48secs)

The key considerations if a practice is looking to merge (2mins 49secs)

The benefits of operating at scale depends on change (3mins 43secs)

Why merge? What will be different? (4mins 41secs)

The benefits of being bigger (5mins 21secs)

The introduction of new roles (5mins 51secs)

Reducing the risks of mergers failing (6mins 44secs)

Tackling cultural differences head-on (7mins 41secs)

The costs of two practices merging (8mins 36secs)

External support or using your practice manager (10mins 24secs)

The hidden cost of time for partners and practice managers (10mins 43secs)

Wider mergers (12mins 23secs)

Culture clashes across a number of practices (13mins 47secs)

Full merger or closer collaboration? (14mins 38secs)

Tiers of partnership (17mins 47secs)

You can contact Robert via e-mail at rm@mccartneyhealth.co.uk

Or call him on 0203 287 9336.