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Martin Ramsey is an accountant with MHA Macintyre Hudson, a firm of chartered accountants, tax and business advisers with a large presence in primary care. Martin has been involved in the development of Our Health Partnership (OHP), the Birmingham based super-practice whose progress we have been following on the General Practice Podcast. In this episode Martin talks about the process of establishing super-partnerships including the opportunities, the risks and the challenges.

Show Notes

Who are MHA Macintyre Hudson and what do they do (43secs)

Martin’s involvement in OHP (1min 17secs)

Merger and super-practice; the dividing line (1min 45secs)

The models of merger (2mins 49secs)

Who is the OHP model best for? (3mins 53secs)

The opportunities and challenges of super-partnerships (4mins 48secs)

The impact on staffing (5mins 55secs)

Reducing accountancy costs (6mins 54secs)

The risks of joining a super-partnerships (7mins 54secs)

Joint and several liability (8mins 48secs)

Mitigating those risks (9mins 21secs)

Lessons learnt from establishing super-partnerships (10mins 46secs)

Making it work; GP-led and wider engagement (11mins 36secs)

Length of the process (12mins 56secs)

The business plan (13mins 46secs)

Establishing a management team (14mins 45secs)

Finding support through the process (15mins 35secs)

The issues around property (16mins 21secs)

Contacting Martin (17mins 57secs)

Contact Martin at martin.ramsey@mhllp.co.uk

The MHA Macintyre Hudson website is available here

The three previous episodes with OHP are available here: Episode 13, Episode 41 and Episode 79.