Physio First: Education Day 2018

Friday 27 April by Celia Champion and Blue Zinc

East Midlands Conference Centre

Exciting updates to Starting in private practice and GDPR

As the GDPR workshops with Blue Zinc have been incredibly popular, we are collaborating with them once again whilst at conference to inform our members on the new General Data Protection Regulations which comes into place on 25 May 2018.

Prices start at £155 - make the most of your day by learning about how you can improve your practice with hints and tips from Celia on marketing, business and budgeting strategies. Then have your chance to ask the experts anything on GDPR in our afternoon workshop.

Not only do you gain expertise from the best in the business on a full-day course, you can also:

  • Access the trade exhibition 
  • Meet our conference speakers
  • Visit our membership and research & development stands to learn more on QAP and our benefits

Painless Practice Director

Celia Champion

Celia Champion offers support to physiotherapists on the non-clinical side of running a clinic.  Drawing on her successful business background, her coaching qualifications and her work with hundreds of clients, over thousands of hours in dozens of sectors, she coaches, trains and supports physiotherapists to run better, more successful practices.  This includes support in developing the overall strategy for the practice in the long-term, medium-term and short-term as well as marketing and people management. She has co-authored two books, one specific to practice management. Celia speaks and writes widely on the topic.

Blue Zinc IT Ltd

Jeremy Allen

Jeremy Allen BSc (hons), B.Ost is the Client Services Director for Blue Zinc IT Ltd the creators of TM3. His first career was in finance followed by retraining as an Osteopath. Jeremy has owned, ran and sold multi-disciplinary clinics whist working with TM3. Over the years he has travelled the UK and abroad working with a wide range of clinics and hospitals from small start-ups to national chains and international organisations. Using his combination of clinical knowledge and business background he has helped all types and sizes of clinics successfully implement TM3 into their practices. His role as Client Services Director has a broad remit with responsibilities ranging from product road map to support and sales.

"I am very fortunate to be in a unique position to represent both our current and future clients in a fast paced and ever-changing software market. I am committed to building on Blue Zinc’s 15 years of market leading experience to ensure we are the number one innovators and trusted advisors in MSK software."

Director of Blue Zinc

Kyle Lunn

Blue Zinc IT is a technology company specialising in innovative solutions for the rehabilitation industry, primarily MSK. They produce an integrated product suite to automate and improve the MSK industry, primarily through their flagship practice management systems, TM2 and TM3.

In 2003, Kyle and his business partner, Ronnie Johnston, purchased the rights to an aging practice management system, Time Machine, together with around 50 paying customers.

In consultation with those customers, and by using the latest technology, Blue Zinc completely re-built the system from the ground up, and TM2 was born. TM2 revolutionised the MSK sector with innovative solutions for running clinics such as specialised clinical records, online appointment booking and off site data hosting. TM2 was seen as the most developed system on the market, until TM3 came along, which is set to transform how clinics are managed and how clinicians work. In addition to TM3, Blue Zinc have launched solutions to transform the management of patient referrals across the industry for the benefit of clinics and patients alike.

 

Course Overview:

This course is provided for those who are either thinking of going into private practice, have recently made the transition or have been in private practice for years and feel your practice needs a boost of energy. You will learn so many new benefits for your practice which ever stage you’re at! Learning to run a practice in one day is impossible but what this course will do is highlight everything you need to think about, provide useful templates and tools for you to use and provide practical, simple to implement ideas.

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Course outline:

  • Being clear about what you want
  • Legal status choices
  • Writing your business plan
  • ‘Great-to-have’ strategic documents for your business
  • Budgeting for success
  • Marketing your practice
  • Running your practice successfully
New! GDPR learning outcomes:
  • What GDPR is
  • How GDPR will affect aspects of clinic life
  • Gain insight from clinic specific examples
  • Gain an understanding of what tasks a GDPR compliance journey may contain
  • How to begin a compliance journey - steps to take to start the process

The course in more detail

Being clear about what you want

Choosing to set up your own practice or become self-employed within someone else’s practice might be a huge change in direction for you. It is important to be very clear about what your aspirations are in all areas of your personal and professional life so that you can set up your private practice in a way that it will deliver your goals

Course objectives:

  • Beginning with the end in mind
  • Aligning your practice with your aspirations
  • Defining your core values

Legal status choices:

You have several options when it comes to going into private practice. It’s important to know what those choices are and the pros and cons of each so that you can make an informed decision about what status you’d like at the start and as your practice changes over time

Course objectives:

  • Employment status options
  • Legal entity options
  • Brief overview of tax and National Insurance implications

Writing your business plan

Taking time at the start of your journey to map out exactly what you want to achieve will stand you in good stead and give you a far greater chance of success. A business plan needs to be fit for purpose and take into account the many different elements involved in running a private practice.

Course objectives:

  • What are the different elements of a business plan
  • Sources of information
  • Keeping it simple and useful

‘Great-to-have’ strategic documents for your business

Your business plan will include several strategic documents but there may be other areas that need to be considered and documented in more detail to ensure the smooth and successful running of your practice.

Course objectives:

  • Future proofing your business with processes
  • List of what should be documented
  • Prioritising for your specific needs

Budgeting for success

If you have chosen to start your own practice or you’re going to be self-employed within someone else’s practice, getting the money side of things right is crucial! Clear planning and getting into good financial habits from the outset will help you to make sensible decisions along the way and give you peace of mind.

Course objectives:

  • Putting a budget together
  • Finance options to consider
  • Numbers to monitor

Marketing your practice

Most physiotherapists did not decide to go into private practice because they had a great desire to become marketers. Marketing is however an important part of running a clinic successfully and needs to be done with consideration and consistently to have the desired impact.

Course objectives:

  • How to get your message right
  • How to build your brand
  • Top tips for online and offline marketing

Running your practice successfully

There are lots of responsibilities when starting in private practice and it can be a real challenge to juggle everything on a day-to-day basis. Keeping your eye on the big picture, being efficient and effective day-to-day and monitoring your progress is vital to enjoying what you do and to achieve your goals

Course objectives:

  • Time management strategies
  • How to outsource and /or delegate effectively
  • Tools and techniques to support you

GDPR

Introduction:

What is it and where did it come from?

  • Brief history of where, what and why

When will it apply and how will it affect you?

How will it affect my practice?

  • What about my clinical notes?
  • What about my marketing?
  • What about my colleagues?
  • What about my IT?

How will it affect me?

  • Do I have to do it?
  • What if I don’t do it?

Resources for further information.