Building stronger practice partnerships

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5 CPD credits - awaiting accreditation

Location
  • Virtual

New in 2026

This is a full-day virtual course.

Healthy partnerships are at the heart of a successful GP practice, however even well-established partnerships can find it difficult to talk openly about the issues that matter most. Day-to-day pressures, differing expectations and unresolved frustrations can make it harder to speak honestly, listen well, and address disagreement early.

This course is for GP partners, practice managers, and other senior practice leaders who want to strengthen their confidence and skill in handling sensitive or difficult issues, work more effectively within their partnership, and contribute to a more resilient and well-led practice.

It may be particularly valuable for practices that are:

  • keen to create a more joined-up leadership culture
  • seeking to reduce tensions, unhelpful work patterns and power dynamics
  • wanting to strengthen trust and improve communication
  • focused on strengthening leadership, governance, and accountability
  • forming or reshaping after a period of change, welcoming new partners and establishing roles and responsibilities
  • wanting to build stronger connections across the wider primary care system
  • taking steps to improve resilience and long-term sustainability.

Who should attend?

  • GP partners
  • Practice managers
  • Other partners or senior leaders within the practice

Awaiting accreditation by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK for 5 category 1 (external) CPD credits.

Speakers

Oscar Mathew

Oscar Mathew MA(Hons), barrister (Middle Temple), accredited mediator

Director, mediator & trainer, the Medical Mediation Foundation (MMF)

Oscar is a qualified barrister, mediator and door tenant of Lamb Chambers in Middle Temple. He has a background in regulatory and public law, with a particular interest in medical law and ethics. Prior to his work with MMF, Oscar was a senior legal adviser to the GMC, overseeing judicial reviews and statutory appellate work in the High Court, and had conduct of the Supreme Court case of Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11, one of the most significant medical law cases in the last 25 years. His work for MMF includes teaching, mediating and team facilitation for healthcare teams experiencing conflict.

Dr Esse Menson

Dr Esse Menson

Trainer, the Medical Mediation Foundation (MMF)

Esse became a consultant paediatrician in 2006 and accredited mediator in 2014. She gained a PhD in vaccine development research in 1989 before qualifying as a doctor in 1994, then training in Infectious Diseases & Immunology. In 2012, she helped develop the Evelina Resolution Project with MMF while she was a consultant at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital. She's one of the principal trainers working with MMF to deliver training in understanding and managing conflict to health and social care professionals. Esse has been a course director for the Guy's & St Thomas' MRCPCH Clinical Examination Course since 2012, and is certificated in compassion training and mindful self compassion training (Kristen Neff/Christopher Germer model).

Dr Sarah Jarvis

Dr Sarah Jarvis

MDU medico-legal adviser

Sarah studied at St George's Hospital medical school, intercalating a BSc as part of her studies. After completing her GP training she became a GP principal, a position she held for 12 years alongside roles as a GP trainer, prescribing lead and child protection lead within her practice. Sarah also served on, and later chaired, fitness to practise panels for the GMC and MPTS for 10 years.

Wednesday 13 May 2026, 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM Virtual

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