We're specialist medical accountants serving GPs, consultants, and medical practice owners across Manchester. Whether you're based in the City Centre, Salford, Trafford, or anywhere across Greater Manchester, we provide expert GP accounting and tax services for medical professionals.
Areas we serve in Manchester
We work with doctors across Manchester City Centre, Salford, Trafford, Stockport, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury, Bolton, Wigan, and surrounding areas of Greater Manchester.
Medical accounting services in Manchester
Manchester's medical sector is thriving, with a strong mix of NHS GP surgeries, private clinics, and teaching hospitals. We understand the local healthcare landscape and the specific financial challenges Manchester-based doctors face, from practice management to private work alongside NHS commitments.
GP partnership accounting
Manchester GP practices range from small partnerships to large multi-site operations. We handle partnership accounts, profit shares, tax returns, and NHS pension reporting.
Consultant tax planning
For Manchester consultants with NHS and private income, we manage your tax position, optimize pension contributions, and handle annual allowance calculations.
Locum doctor tax returns
Manchester locums need reliable tax support for multiple income sources. We handle self assessment, expense optimization, and quarterly tax planning.
The Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme is widely misread as free money for extra staff, when it is a reimbursement of defined employment costs up to a capped maximum, with real tax and VAT consequences for whoever does the employing. This guide takes the practical employer view: which roles are reimbursable, how the cap works, who can legally employ the staff and how each model changes the payroll, the NHS pension, the Employment Allowance and, most importantly, the VAT supply-of-staff question. It closes with how the reimbursement should sit in the accounts.
When a salaried or sessional GP is offered a partnership, the practical question is what you actually pay to come in, and what that money buys. This page isolates the capital buy-in itself: a contribution into the partnership capital accounts for your share of net assets, working capital and any premises share. It explains parity (working up from a reduced share to a full, equal profit share over an agreed period), and how the figure is set and valued, namely on net assets per the accounts and a surveyor or District Valuer basis for premises, never an NHS goodwill multiple. It is the money-and-mechanics page for joining, not a broad pros-and-cons of partnership.
NHS GP practice goodwill cannot be sold and has not been saleable since 1 April 2004. This guide explains the prohibition, why it exists, what actually changes hands on a partnership buy-in or buy-out, the one private exception, and why the dental goodwill playbook does not apply to GPs.
Book a consultation with a Manchester medical accountant
Tell us about your role and financial priorities. We'll arrange a short introductory call to discuss how we can support your medical practice.