Premises, partners and pitfalls: what you need to know before it costs you

Event information

Join us for this focused and practical webinar as we explore the key legal and accounting considerations surrounding property matters in the healthcare sector. With property forming a significant part of long term planning, funding decisions, and partnership arrangements, staying ahead of regulatory, tax, and valuation developments is essential. This session brings together specialist legal and accounting insight to help you navigate the complexities with confidence.

Legal update on Property Matters:

• Key provisions in partnership deeds and how they interact with property ownership.
• Latest developments from NHS Property Services.
• Lease considerations, grant terms, and associated legal implications.
• SDLT reminders and common pitfalls.
• Transferring property into alternative legal entities, including. implications in the context of 10 year planning.

Accounting and tax update:

• Valuation issues and how they impact the accounting process.
• New grant terms and their effect on taxation and borrowing capacity.
• Accounting risks associated with NHS Property Services charges.
• Capital Gains Tax developments, including updates on Business Asset Disposal Relief (BADR).
• Practical considerations for leavers, joiners, and buying into practice premises.

This session is designed to provide clear, actionable guidance and highlight the issues we are seeing most frequently in practice. Whether you are reviewing partnership arrangements, planning for future premises changes, or navigating evolving tax and accounting requirements, this webinar will equip you with the insight you need.

Key benefits

• Gain up‑to‑date legal and accounting insight into the most common property challenges facing healthcare practices, helping you avoid costly mistakes.
• Understand how current regulations, valuation issues, tax changes, and NHS Property Services developments directly affect partnership structures, borrowing capacity, and long‑term planning.
• Receive practical, actionable guidance from sector specialists to support confident decision‑making around premises ownership, leases, grants, and partner transitions.

About the speakers

	Oliver Pool, Partner, Veale Wasbrough Vizards Oliver has been acting for GP practices since 2005 and has been involved in drawing up or amending well over 500 GP partnership deeds. He advises GP practices and helps with all aspects of the partnership relationship, from putting in place the GP partnership deed and advising on its terms, to dealing with disputes between partners. He also routinely advises on GP mergers and the creation of super partnerships and other new structures for GP practices.
	Adam Thompson, Director, Primary Care Surveyors With over two decades of specialised experience in healthcare property, Adam founded Primary Care Surveyors with a clear vision: to provide GP practices and healthcare providers with expert property advice that truly understands their unique challenges. As a RICS-registered Chartered Surveyor, Adam has personally overseen hundreds of rent reviews, lease negotiations, and property valuations for healthcare practices across the UK. His deep understanding of NHS property requirements and reimbursement systems has saved clients millions in unnecessary costs.
	Sally Sidaway, Medical Director, Morris Crocker Sally is a Medical Director at Morris Crocker specialist medical accountants with over 26 years’ experience in acting for GPs and the wider medical client base. Sally has acted for a large number of GP practices across the South of England of a range of size, type and structure. Sally regularly deals with the affairs of PCNs and client mergers together with the tax aspects of clients' affairs including exposure to NHS pension tax charges.

CPD hours

ICAEW's revised Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Regulations bring in new CPD requirements. This includes a minimum number of hours and an ethics requirement. Attending this webinar could contribute up to 1hr of verifiable CPD, providing you can demonstrate that the content is relevant to your role.

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Costs

ICAEW members and non-members are welcome to join. This event is organised by the Healthcare Community. Please click here to join online.