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GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTITIONER SERVICES
If you have any questions not answered here, please do not hesitate to contact us. 1. Do you act for other GPs? We act for numerous GP practices ranging from sole practitioners to large partnerships. Our clients are located across South East England. 2. How long have you been working with GPs? Justin Parfitt, our Senior Partner, has been advising NHS clients since 1994, including GPs, Health Authorities, Primary Care Trusts and the Department of Health. 3. Do you prepare practice partners' personal tax returns? We generally prepare personal tax returns for all partners in
our client practices, unless an individual partner has historically
used other advisers and wishes to continue to receive their services. 4. How do you charge for your services? Our fees are fixed before we start work for you and can be fixed
for more than one year. 5. How do you keep up to date? The NHS is constantly changing and we continually update our technical expertise and general NHS awareness through a number of means: o Membership of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales Medical Group and attendance at their Annual Conference.
We have a number of clients, both in the application stage and operational in PMS contracts. 7. How long do you take to prepare accounts and calculate tax liabilities? We guarantee that you will have your final accounts sent to you for signature within thirty working days of us receiving them. This is simply on the basis you provide us with all your records and answer any queries we have when we ask them. The clock stops if the ball is in your court waiting for information! Your tax liability calculations will follow shortly afterwards, within two weeks. If we do not achieve these timescales you will not pay a penny for our services. We can prepare tax projections before preparing accounts where necessary. 8. Can you help us to computerise our accounts? We have installed low cost Sage accounts software into practices to reduce the time spent keeping the practice books. This provides additional internal financial management information and increases practice financial controls. We can train your team to use Sage to best effect. You will have a named Partner who will act as your main point of contact and will be actively involved in all aspects of the work we do for you. We provide a personal service and provide each client with a tailored service to optimise their financial position. We guarantee our response times and will ideally take your call immediately or return your call the same day or, at the latest, within twenty-four hours. 10. Do you provide financial advice? We are accountants and tax advisers and use trusted Independent Financial Adviser specialists to provide financial advice to our clients. We offer a financial healthcheck to clients and potential clients alike, without charge or obligation. 11. Are you proactive advisers? A brief review of our web site will demonstrate our approach to proactive advice with our Tax Healthcheck and Business Profitability Checklist, Newsletter and relevant tax planning articles. 12. Can your clients provide a reference to us? Our clients would be delighted to provide a reference for our
services.
We use the latest technology at our offices and most accounting software packages to enable our clients to e-mail or send their accounting data in soft format. 14. Can you visit us for meetings? Most GPs prefer us to visit their surgery for meetings and we are more than happy to do so. We can also arrange to visit your surgery outside of normal office hours. We will always visit you for a free initial consultation to discuss your service requirements and how we would be of assistance. This visit will be without cost or obligation to you. 15. Do you charge for ad-hoc advice? In order to keep the communication channels open with our clients and to enable us to be fully appraised of our clients affairs at all times, we do not charge for ad-hoc advice. We encourage our clients to contact us with any queries, however small. 16. Do you provide payroll services? We provide payroll services for clients, easing the burden on your payroll team. We deal with all monthly and year-end work, including the administration of the superannuation scheme. 17. Do you provide tax enquiry insurance? We can provide insurance to clients as required. 18. What is the cost of changing accountants? Changing accountants is a free and straightforward process. |