Masterclass Series

For video passwords or to register for future Masterclass sessions, contact abc.webinars@nhs.net for more information.

ABC Masterclass: Understanding Practice Finances

Designed for GP Partners and Practice Managers, this masterclass tackles the most common finance issues in general practice.
Speaker: Katrina Clements, Head of Finance, Alliance for Better Care

The session covers how to:
– account for income and expenditure in the correct period
– understand practice prior share
– develop a staffing budget and know the importance of it
– create a system for regular management accounts and understanding the value this can bring to your business
– explore why year-on-year financial analysis can be so powerful for your business

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ABC Masterclass: Understanding health inequalities

Listening and learning: Understanding health inequalities by engaging with the people that matter. Five months since joining the Alliance for Better Care team as its first ever Vaccine Equity Co-ordinators, Jeredyne Stanley and Eva Bangova shared their experiences and learnings from their extensive community engagement initiatives.

Together with Lisa Gavin from First Community, this masterclass addresses the issues that are at the very heart of the communities we serve and discussing practical and manageable solutions to tackling existing health inequalities.

The panel focused on their most recent work with Black and Asian men, members of the GRT community, as well as refugees – providing a better understanding of each community’s needs and their concerns surrounding healthcare.

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ABC Masterclass – Building Confidence

Self confidence is a regular topic in executive and leadership coaching, and seems to affect most people at some time in their life: So let’s talk about it! What’s going on under the surface of what we call confidence? How can you build confidence in yourself and in others?

Guest host: Anna Springett

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ABC Masterclass – Managing Change

Speaker: Katherine Saunders, introduced by Dr Michael Bosch – 6 July

A series of evening virtual Masterclasses to support individuals in GP Practices, PCNs and colleagues across Primary Care (Surrey and Sussex).

These sessions are designed to address the issues that affect your local services and provide an opportunity to explore innovative ideas and practical solutions with subject matter experts.

An interactive workshop for anyone currently leading a service, or those looking to establish or improve a service within their practice or PCN.

Katherine takes the group through the 8 stages of managing change, inspired by the book ‘Our Iceberg is Melting’ by John Kotter

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ABC Masterclass – Service Development

A series of evening virtual Masterclasses to support individuals in GP Practices, PCNs and colleagues across Primary Care (Surrey and Sussex).

These sessions are designed to address the issues that affect your local services and provide an opportunity to explore innovative ideas and practical solutions with subject matter experts.

An interactive workshop for anyone currently leading a service, or those looking to establish or improve a service within their practice or PCN.

The session focuses on:

– Scoping the issue

– Prioritising work

– Who to involve and who should do what planning resource

– Communicating well, avoiding common pitfalls, celebrating success

Katherine takes the group through real life examples and share tools and templates for you to use after the session.

Speaker: Katherine Saunders, Chief Executive Alliance for Better Care

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ABC Masterclass – Marketing and Comms | 31 March 2021

A series of evening virtual Masterclasses to support individuals in GP Practices, PCNs and colleagues across Primary Care (Surrey and Sussex).

These sessions are designed to address the issues that affect your local services and provide an opportunity to explore innovative ideas and practical solutions with subject matter experts.

This session focuses on:

– Establishing a brand for PCNs and Practices

– Developing a managable communications strategy

– Innovative ways to reach key audience groups

– Creating a crisis comms plan of action

– Cost-effective marketing tools and solutions for your team

Speaker: Jasmine Plowright, ABC Comms

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ABC Masterclass – Managing Yourself

This is the second in a series of Masterclasses for PCN Clinical Directors and anyone in a PCN who would find the topic of interest – hosted on Tues 23 Feb 2021.

How does who you are affect how you lead?

Does your reputation line up with your self-concept and identity?

If you don’t know, how might you find out?

Where does leadership development come into this?

Hosted by: Dr Michael Bosch Speaker: Anna Springett, Chartered Psychologist and Senior Practitioner Coach

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ABC Masterclass: PCN Finance

The first in a series of Masterclasses for PCN Clinical Directors and anyone in a PCN who would find the topic of interest.

Areas covered:

– Do you have PCN funds burning a hole in your pocket?

– Are you unclear what you can and can’t spend money on?

– Are you confused by P&Ls, I&Es and any other acronyms.

Hosted by: Dr Michael Bosch Speakers: Katherine Saunders, Chief Executive and Katrina Clements, Financial Controller from Alliance for Better Care.

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Future sessions include:
February | Finance with Katrina Clements
March | Industrialised Care with Dr Gillian Orrow
April | Effective Communications with Jasmine Plowright

For video passwords or to register for future Masterclass sessions, contact abc.webinars@nhs.net for more information.