Management in Practice shortlisted at the PPA Awards 2025

Posted on by Bianca Pettifor

We are pleased to announce that Management in Practice has been shortlisted for the Community Engagement Award at the PPA Awards 2025.

The Community Engagement Award focuses on recognising the value of specialist media audiences, such as the GP practice manager community, who trust and engage with the content of specialist media brands.

Our PPA Awards entry for Management in Practice highlighted how its news and information website, newsletters and events programme are all finely tuned to meet the niche needs of GP practice managers, who have in recent years undergone a profound transformation to become the main decision makers, leaders, and business experts in GP surgeries.  

A greater focus on content that offers reliable industry insight and practical support combined with in-person events that allow practice managers to take a rare day out, catch up with peers and hear about new ideas and innovations has strengthened their engagement with the brand. 2024 saw a 41% growth in newsletter subscribers compared with 2023 and an increase in attendees at Management in Practice Events.

However, Management in Practice’s focus has gone beyond that, with a goal to actively champion and support the PM profession, whose role can be isolating and underappreciated. This has been reflected in our coverage of practice managers’ campaigning activity on issues such as fair pay for all staff and for greater investment to stem the closure of surgeries.

Our Management in Practice-sponsored annual Practice Manager of the Year award, part of Cogora’s General Practice Awards, reinforces the brand’s commitment to celebrating this dedicated community and showcasing their achievements.

Management in Practice offers the latest incisive news, features, opinions, and business insight, gathered specifically for practice managers, GPs and those with management responsibilities working in GP surgeries. Through our website and events, practice managers are kept in the know about all aspects of running a practice, including on finances and QOF, efficiency, managing the workforce, recruitment, looking after the premises, technology, CQC inspections and more.

The PPA Awards champion businesses and individuals across the sector, recognising work across UK consumer brands and business media.

The winners will be announced at an event in London on June 25th 2025.

Pulse and Management in Practice in the Press: GP practice collective action

Posted on by Bianca Pettifor

Our exclusive survey carried out by Pulse and Management in Practice has been picked up by the national press, revealing that more than four in 10 GP practices are limiting patient appointments as part of collective action to bring about better terms and conditions.

In the survey carried out by Pulse and Management in Practice, we received responses from 660 different GP practices – about one in 10 in England.

The survey revealed that almost three quarters of England’s GPs (70%) are currently taking some form of collective action.

Only 7% said they are not planning on taking part, and 13% are currently still considering which of the BMA-recommended actions they are willing to take.

The survey showed that one of the most common actions taken by practices is limiting appointments per GP, with 41% of practices already having this measure in place, and 29% currently considering implementing it.

A GP partner who wishes to remain anonymous told us that his practice in Huntingdonshire is looking to intensify its action, after having already served notice of voluntary services and stopped rationing referrals.

He said: ‘If the Government does nothing, we may intensify our action. Wes Streeting does not understand how strongly grassroots doctors feel about this. We are looking to intensify our action as the Government appear not to understand our resolve on this issue.’

The survey results from Pulse and Management in Practice were picked up by the Telegraph, the Standard, Daily Mail, Express & Star, and ITV News.

Pulse provides an indispensable and comprehensive range of trusted content that meets the needs of all GPs, through its political and financial news, cutting-edge investigations, clinical updates or practical business advice.

Management in Practice offers the latest incisive news, features, opinions, and business insight, gathered specifically for practice managers, GPs and those with management responsibilities working in GP surgeries.