Private and Independent Practice SIG Conference | Starting Out In Private and Independent Practice (Sold Out)

Please join us for the PIPSIG annual winter conference! This year sees the return of our ever popular ‘starting out in private and independent practice’ with a particular focus on clinical and medicolegal practice. 

There is no let-up in the numbers of psychiatrists who are looking beyond ‘the norm’ and wishing to pursue a different route outside the NHS. Whether it be a part time option, a few hours a week to sustain consultants enough to continue in their usual NHS role (without burning out or relocating to Australia) or a complete change of direction into independent practice, it can be a daunting experience to take those first few steps. 

This conference will help those considering a move into independent practice with practical advice, across a range of working options, given by a variety of consultant peers who have all been through it. We shall also have the opportunity to hear from external speakers, expert in their knowledge of some of the supportive structures that can help independent practitioners. 

Whether it be uncertainty about the CQC, tax, appraisal, revalidation, being self employed, charging patients, working for a private organisation, or doing medicolegal work, we shall have something for you to help reduce your anxiety, and encourage your creativity and optimism about a fulfilling independent career. 

 This conference will be suitable for existing consultants and higher trainees curious about life and opportunities outside the NHS. Places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment. The conference is in person and will not be recorded. 

Dr Paul Mallett

Consultant Adult Psychiatrist since 1993. Medicolegal practice since 2004. Civil Injury, Clinical Negligence and Employment Tribunal work. SUI investigations and appraisal for NHS. Small independent clinical practice. Previously Consultant at CNWL Trust and Trust Medical Director.

Particular interests in the use of AI and validity testing in medicolegal work. Managing partner in NOMOS, a psychiatric medicolegal group practice. Sadly, at my age, interested in motorsport and fast cars.

Ms Martha Walker

Martha has over 25 years experience of running an independent medical practice. 

For the last 13 years she has been successfully assisting GPs and Consultants in the independent sector to register with the Care Quality Commission and overseeing continued compliance once registered.

Martha regularly holds workshops and presentations on CQC compliance for healthcare providers.   She also mentors managers and their teams in practices and has lectured to undergraduates on practice management.

Martha is the CQC advisor to the Independent Doctors Federation and was the CQC commentator for The Independent Practitioner Today for a number of years.  She is regularly invited to join CQC co-production meetings and workshops.

Martha was the educational lead for the HCA Lister Hospital’s Practice Managers Development Forum and on the steering committee of the London based Practice Managers Forum that promoted the education and professional development of practice managers and administrators with a particular emphasis on CQC requirements through lectures and networking.

Martha has a Diploma in Management and has membership of the Institute of Leadership and Management and the Royal Society of Medicine.  

Based in the West Country, Martha works with independent doctors throughout England.

Dr Maria Papanastassiou

I am consultant psychiatrist and a group analyst. I enjoy facilitating large groups in various settings and have done so for the college over the last few years, at the medical psychotherapy conferences and psychodynamic psychiatry conferences too.

I am also a trainer at the institute of group analysis in London and work at various London universities enabling students with mental health issues to complete their degrees.

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