Larking Gowen offers tailored packages for more than 160 NHS consultants both for those who run a private practice on a self-employed basis, as well as those who are employed. We can give you general business advice and help you with your personal tax arrangements.

We also act for a number of consultant groups operating through partnerships, LLPs and companies.

We'll give you all the business and tax advice and support you need to run your private practice in conjunction with your NHS consultancy work.  We can help with:

• Preparing annual accounts
• Tax returns
• Personal expenses
• Calculation of tax liabilities
• Tax planning advice
• NHS pension check
• Advice on annual and lifetime allowance
• Practical business advice on starting out in private practice
• Trading structure review
• Administration support - payroll, bookkeeping, training, budgeting, cash flow
• The transition to Making Tax Digital
• Advice on annual and lifetime allowances
• Access to our network of specialist medical financial advisers
• Specialist technical advice in relation to your tax affairs, including capital gains tax and inheritance tax

As a locum doctor, expert advice is important when you choose your trading structure, whether it's on a self-employed basis, as a limited company or in partnership. At Larking Gowen we have decades of combined experience looking after the accountancy needs of locums. If you're setting up in business or self-employment, we can give you examples of financial comparisons to help you make the right decisions. We also give advice on becoming a GP principal, providing you with specific reviews of practice accounts.

Larking Gowen will give you all the support, in accounting and financial matters, you need as a locum doctor including:

• Annual accounts and tax returns
• Advice on tax liabilities
• National insurance
• Advice on tax planning and tax savings
• Pension contributions (NHS and private)
• Personal expenses
• Record keeping
• Advice on annual and lifetime allowances
• Advice on becoming a GP principal

Larking Gowen helps hundreds of salaried GPs and other employed medical professionals keep their tax, national insurance and pension arrangements up to date. We can advise on becoming a GP principal, providing you with specific reviews of practice accounts. We'll also help you with claiming tax relief on professional fees and subscriptions. Newly qualified GPs can claim tax relief for training costs and exam fees.

Larking Gowen will give you all the support you need, in accounting and financial matters, as a salaried GP or medical professional including:

• Tax returns
• Advice on tax liabilities
• National insurance
• Pension contributions (NHS and private)
• Personal expenses
• Annual and lifetime tax allowances
• Access to specialist medical financial advisers
• Advice on becoming a GP principal

Larking Gowen has wide experience helping clients set up GP-providing companies and federations to bid for NHS contracts. These firms keep local care and health services in the hands of GPs. We also have experience setting up and managing companies providing private health services such as out-of-hours co-operatives and practice-based commissioning groups. Our specialist medical knowledge and corporate expertise means we're able to provide a comprehensive service for private health firms.  

Larking Gowen will give you all the support you need, in accounting and financial matters, as a private health company including:

• Annual accounts and tax returns
• Advice on corporation tax liabilities
• Tax planning advice (including VAT)
• Administration (including bookkeeping and payroll)
• Company secretarial service
• Pension contributions (NHS and private)
• Personal expenses