GP UNLOCKED
The GP Career, Business
& Wellbeing Summit
A one-day conference for GP registrars, early-career and established GPs. Venue and final faculty participation to be confirmed. Explore the workshops, live polls and new career pathways.






GP life is bigger than the consulting room.
What if your next conference helped you understand practice accounts, navigate CQC regulation, build a portfolio career, explore investing, win service contracts and protect your wellbeing — all in one day?
GP Unlocked is built around real-world decisions, open discussion and practical takeaways. Less passive listening. More possibilities.

The future of general practice isn't written. It's ours to shape.
An opening keynote on leadership, career choices and creating a sustainable future for the profession.
Professor Sir Mayur Lakhani CBE FRCGP Former RCGP President
Meet your keynote speaker ↗The GP Career Reality Check.
No rehearsed answers. The audience votes live, the results go onto the screen, and our faculty respond to what GPs in the room actually think.
● LIVE POLLING · YOUR PHONE IS THE REMOTE- Which part of your GP career would you change first?
- Is partnership still the destination — or just one option?
- What is really stopping you trying something new?
- At the end of the day, we revisit one key question.
Real-world skills. Real options.
Choose one workshop from Set One twice and one from Set Two twice, making four different workshop experiences. Each session repeats, so you can explore more than one route in each set.
Set One · Build possibilities.
10:10–11:00 & 13:00–13:50 · choose one each roundDevelop services & win bids
What if your next clinical idea became a commissioned NHS service?
Translate a clinical opportunity into a compelling service proposal covering outcomes, staffing, mobilisation, governance and costs.

Unlock portfolio careers
Your GP qualification is a starting point, not a ceiling.
Explore four different career pathways and the practical considerations needed to develop a specialist GP portfolio.




CQC & clinical governance
Would your practice stand up to scrutiny tomorrow?
Work through practical governance scenarios covering inspection readiness, complaints, safeguarding, significant events and quality improvement.


Set Two · Take control.
11:20–12:10 & 14:00–14:50 · choose one each roundUnderstand practice accounts
Know what the numbers mean before they become your responsibility.
Read profit-and-loss accounts, drawings, liabilities and cash position before making GP partnership decisions.

Investing for the future
Your income works hard. Is your money working for you?
Understand investment goals, risk, time horizons, diversification and costs through illustrative scenarios relevant to GPs.

Wellbeing that lasts
Who looks after the person doing all the looking after?
Make practical changes around workload, boundaries, recovery and building a sustainable working week.

Partner, salaried, locum or private?
Choose a career model — before it chooses you.
An interactive comparison of autonomy, lifestyle, pension, costs, risk and real earnings, led by a GP partner with contrasting perspectives to be confirmed.

The day, unlocked.
A morning that challenges assumptions, workshops that offer practical answers and an afternoon exploring AI, commissioned care and your next career move. Timings are provisional.
Arrival, coffee & Career Discovery Hub
Explore pathways and meet colleagues before the opening.
Welcome to GP UNLOCKED
Professor Abbas Tejani introduces the day.

Opening keynote · A future worth building
Professor Sir Mayur Lakhani CBE FRCGP · Leadership and possibilities in general practice.

The GP Career Reality Check · LIVE POLL
Audience QR voting, instant results and a frank conversation about the careers we want.
Workshop round 1 · Set One
A Service bidding · B Portfolio careers · C CQC & governance.





Coffee & Career Discovery Hub
Explore qualifications, career pathways and mentor conversations.
Workshop round 2 · Set Two
D Practice accounts · E Investing · F Wellbeing · G Partner / salaried / locum / private.




Lunch, mentoring & the Career Discovery Hub
Lunch and refreshments included. Meet pathway providers and fellow delegates.
Workshop round 3
A Service bidding · B Portfolio careers · C CQC & governance.





Room change
Move to your final workshop.
Workshop round 4
D Practice accounts · E Investing · F Wellbeing · G Career models.




Return to the main hall
Short break before the headline conversations.
AI & digital health in general practice
Dr Gurnak Dosanjh · The practical opportunities, limitations and clinical safety of AI.

From idea to innovation to commissioned service
Professors Rishabh Prasad and Nil Sanganee in conversation.


Faculty conversation · Ask what matters
Live questions with available speakers across careers, governance, innovation and wellbeing.




Your Next Chapter · Commitment & close
Revisit the opening poll, choose one concrete next step and close the day.

Workshop room rotation · at a glance
Two repeated workshop sets. Four rounds. Your choice of four different sessions.
Build possibilities.
What if your next clinical idea became a commissioned NHS service?
Your GP qualification is a starting point, not a ceiling.
Would your practice stand up to scrutiny tomorrow?
Take control.
Know what the numbers mean before they become your responsibility.
Your income works hard. Is your money working for you?
Who looks after the person doing all the looking after?
Choose a career model — before it chooses you.
Delegates can attend two workshops from each set. The four-room plan for Set Two is provisional; final room allocations and capacity will be confirmed with the venue.
Beyond the hype. What will AI actually change for GPs?
Join Dr Gurnak Dosanjh for 35 minutes on practical AI, safer digital workflows, clinical judgement and patient-centred innovation.
Dr Gurnak DosanjhFrom idea to innovation to commissioned service.
What separates a clever clinical idea from a service that the NHS is willing and able to commission?


Don't just hear about opportunities. Meet the people who open doors.
We're curating a practical space where GPs can explore qualifications, unusual career pathways and real next steps. Not another row of leaflets: conversations with people who know how the routes work.
Career Discovery Hub
Meet providers and professional bodies who can explain qualifications, eligibility, costs and next steps.
Five-minute Career Surgeries
Proposed short, prebookable conversations with clinicians who have already built unusual careers.
The GP Career Passport
Capture ideas, relevant contacts and create a realistic 90-day action plan, not a stack of leaflets.
Opportunity Board
Explore potential roles, fellowships, training and supervision routes that could become your next move.
The Career Discovery Hub, mentoring conversations and participating organisations are being developed. Named partner attendance and mentoring slots will only be advertised once confirmed.
A medical degree can take you further than you think.
Some of the most interesting GP-adjacent careers were barely mentioned at medical school. These are possible pathways we're exploring for our Career Discovery Hub — not confirmed talks or exhibitors.
Medical examiner & tribunal roles
From independent scrutiny of deaths to medical contributions in judicial decision-making.
Aviation & space medicine
From aeromedical examinations to specialist training in aerospace medicine.
Motorsport & racecourse medicine
Medical cover, emergency care and occupational environments far beyond the GP surgery.
Expedition & maritime medicine
A GP career on board ships, in remote environments or supporting adventurous expeditions.
Forensic and legal medicine
Police custody, medicolegal work and expert evidence — specialist training and governance apply.
Clinical AI safety & digital health
Use clinical judgement to make new technology safer for patients and clinicians.
People who've done the work.
From national primary-care leadership to practice accounts, innovation, commissioning and wellbeing. Select a speaker to explore their background. The opening keynote speaker is also included below.

Professor Sir Mayur Lakhani CBE FRCGP
GP leader · Former RCGP President
Read short biography
Sir Mayur is a practising Leicestershire GP, former Chair and President of the Royal College of General Practitioners, and former Chair of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. His work brings national leadership experience to the future of primary care.
Speaker profile ↗
Fireside conversationProfessor Nil Sanganee
Chief Medical Officer · LLR and Northamptonshire ICBs
Read short biography
A GP and medical educator, Professor Sanganee has led clinical strategy and commissioning across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, with responsibility spanning primary, community and hospital care. He has held a chief medical officer role across the clustered ICBs.
Speaker profile ↗
Service development · FiresideProfessor Rishabh Prasad
Chair, Willow’s Group · GP · Healthcare strategy
Read short biography
Professor Rishabh Prasad chairs Willow’s Group. His leadership spans healthcare governance, clinical operations and growing services within regulated NHS and private-care settings. At GP Unlocked he will explore the practical journey from identifying a need to designing, costing and winning a commissioned service.
Willow’s Group profile ↗
CQC and governanceProfessor Tariq Kapasi
Partner, Willow’s Group · GP · Clinical governance
Read short biography
Professor Tariq Kapasi is a partner at Willow’s Group, bringing expertise in clinical governance, healthcare transformation and quality improvement. He is also listed as a registered manager for Willows Medical Centre. His workshop looks beyond inspection checklists to what effective governance means in day-to-day practice.
Willow’s Group profile ↗
Portfolio careersProfessor Fahad Rizvi
GPwER · Enhanced community surgery
Read short biography
Professor Rizvi is an experienced community minor surgeon and medical educator, teaching practical surgical skills and the governance required to deliver them safely within primary care.
Speaker profile ↗
AI and digital healthDr Gurnak Dosanjh
GP · Deputy Chief Clinical Information Officer, LLR ICB
Read short biography
An NHS GP and digital health leader with an interest in safe innovation and reducing health inequalities. His work connects technology, practical clinical workflows and patient-centred service transformation.
Speaker profile ↗
Career-model breakoutDr Shabbir Tejani
GP Partner
Read short biography
Dr Tejani leads the partner, salaried, locum or private breakout, bringing a working GP partner’s perspective on the practical decisions, financial considerations and responsibilities of partnership.
Conference host · Portfolio careersProfessor Abbas Tejani
GP Partner · Occupational Physician · Academic
Read short biography
Honorary Professor of Primary Care and Medical Education, GP Partner and founder of Cornerstone Medical Education. His clinical portfolio spans community surgery, occupational medicine and teaching.
Speaker profile ↗
Practice accountsProfessor Vinay Gupta
Partner, Willow’s Group · GP · Practice finance
Read short biography
Professor Vinay Gupta is a partner at Willow’s Group, whose work includes operational improvement and sustainable healthcare growth. His workshop translates profit-and-loss figures, drawings and liabilities into the questions every aspiring GP partner should ask before committing.
Willow’s Group profile ↗
CQC and governancePaul Houseman
CQC Inspector
Read short biography
Paul brings an inspector’s perspective to the realities of CQC expectations and governance in primary care.
Portfolio careersDr Anika Gupta
GPwER · Dermatology
Read short biography
Dr Gupta explores the training, clinical scope and practical considerations involved in developing an extended role in dermatology.
InvestingMuhammad Baqir Al-Obaidi
Investment Manager, Legal & General · CFA
Read short biography
Muhammad Baqir Al-Obaidi is an investment professional at Legal & General and a CFA charterholder. At GP Unlocked he will explore the investment fundamentals that matter to busy clinicians: risk, diversification, time horizons, costs and long-term thinking.
LinkedIn profile ↗
Portfolio careers · WellbeingDr Zakkiya Makda
GP · Medical aesthetics · Wellbeing coach
Read short biography
A GP whose work spans medical aesthetics, coaching and sustainable careers. She explores the opportunity to diversify clinically while protecting wellbeing.
Faculty and programme details may change. Further guests for the portfolio showcase and career-model breakout are being explored, but are not announced here.
Your next chapter starts here.
One day to question assumptions, discover new opportunities and unlock what’s next for your GP career. Secure the introductory rate while early-bird places are available.
✓ Tea, coffee and refreshments
✓ Full programme and workshops
Resident Doctor or Practice Manager
Introductory early-bird price · normal £129
- Full-day GP Unlocked admission
- Keynote, talks, panels and workshop access
- Lunch and refreshments included
- Career Discovery Hub access (subject to programme)
General Practitioner
Introductory early-bird price · normal £169
- Full-day GP Unlocked admission
- Keynote, talks, panels and workshop access
- Lunch and refreshments included
- Career Discovery Hub access (subject to programme)
What if the most career-changing thing you learn this year isn't clinical?
Not just another conference itinerary. Five conversations worth being in the room for.
A keynote that sets the agenda.
Professor Sir Mayur Lakhani CBE FRCGP opens the conversation.
Less theory. More opportunity.
Seven pathways. Real decisions. Practical takeaways.
The future isn't waiting for us.
Dr Gurnak Dosanjh explores AI and digital health in general practice.
From bright idea to NHS contract.
Professors Rishabh Prasad and Nil Sanganee on innovation becoming commissioned care.
Your questions. Their experience.
An open conversation with the faculty about the realities of GP life.
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Partner with GP Unlocked 2027
Exhibition and sponsorship opportunities for organisations supporting general practice. We also welcome educational partners to the new Career Discovery Hub.

