Practice Management Network Steering Group

Sam Clark

"The Practice Management Network is a terrific opportunity for us all. With the backing of established organisations and the practice manager's voice to the fore, finally we may be heard."

I started my healthcare career with BUPA, joining them in 1991 in their Customer Services department.  I was then recruited to join a nationwide team of BUPA Members Patients Advisors; this was a new initiative, placing Advisors in all BUPA Hospitals Nationwide.

After a maternity career break I returned to healthcare and joined a GP Practice in Suffolk. Read more...

Sam aligns with AMSPAR on the steering group.

 

Wendy Evans

"Practice managers have been described as the NHS’s greatest secret. No longer!
The rapidly expanding role of the modern practice manager as strategist, service provider and commissioner guarantees a higher profile for practice management and creates a need for greater support which this new network will help to provide. The NHS has much to learn from practice managers, whose joint leadership role with clinicians could become the prototype for future NHS management. The new network will establish practice managers as a credible force for change in the NHS as well as providing a vital debating forum for their future."

I have been a Practice Manager since 1979 and started my career in an inner City practice in Brixton. I worked for 8 years in the Department of General Practice UMDS St Thomas’ and Guys. I was a tutor for AMSPA in 1980’s and 90’s teaching Practice Managers on the AMSPA course at Hammersmith and West London College. Read more...

Wendy aligns with the NHS Alliance on the steering group.

Sandy Gower

Sandy has been the Managing Partner of Bennetts End Surgery since 1997.  She is a Trustee of the National Association for Patient Participation and a Member of the National Education Programme for Supporting Carers in a General Practice Steering Group.  In addition she is the Practice Management Co-Lead for the General Practice Foundation of the Royal College of General Practitioners.

Sandy aligns with the Royal College of General Practitioners on the steering group.

 

Val Hempsey

'I feel the network is long overdue, a forum for all Managers to not only support each other but to share information, advice, resources and skills. We have in the past worked in individual silos, then we realized the huge benefits of networking with other Managers from all sort of practices, all sorts of geographical areas as lots of us were fortunate enough to be able to join or be part of organizations that supported us.

Now we have a forum that has brought together all of that into one arena - brilliant!.'

Val aligns with the National Association of Primary Care on the steering group.

Geraldine Taggart-Jeewa

"The Practice Management Network is a wonderful opportunity for frontline managers to contribute to the direction of healthcare policy. It is driven by working practice managers who know how important it is to keep up to date. It combines excellent links to policy shapers with the practical provision of useful documentation, current guides and information from the organisations supporting this exciting development."

Geraldine aligns with the Family Doctor Association on the steering group.

Elizabeth Mather

"Practice managers are a key management sector in delivering and improving health and care outcomes for the population in the UK. The network is very helpful in providing relevant information from a variety of sources to inform and support practice managers in the complex and challenging landscape in which they work. The Institute of Healthcare Management will add to this support in whatever way it can, through education and networking opportunities, and by recognising and disseminating best practice."

Elizabeth is a Practice Manager at the Beacon View Medical Centre and aligns with the Institute of Healthcare Management on the steering group.

Russell Vine

I am a practice manager since 1993, settled into the area I work, interested in all aspects and influencers of the job and passionate to try and make the bit of the service I work within perform ever better.

What do I enjoy about practice management? I could say the variety, the challenges, the desire to improve services to patients, the desire to put something back into society – in reality it is all of these and a whole lot more on good days, and pure stubbornness on those “occasional” bad days. Read more...

Russell aligns with the General Practitioners Committee, British Medical Association on the steering group.

The Practice Management Network Steering Group's Terms of Reference