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Streamline Your Path to LLP Success with Our Comprehensive Services
Are you a consultant looking to form a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) and provide your clinical services to the NHS? We’re here to simplify the process, so you can focus on what you do best—delivering outstanding care and services.
What is a Consultant LLP?
An LLP (Limited Liability Partnership) is a legal structure designed for healthcare professionals who want to collaborate while protecting their personal assets. In an LLP, each partner’s liability is limited, shielding them from personal financial risk. This setup allows consultants to share profits, responsibilities, and resources while benefiting from legal protections. An LLP is an ideal choice for consultants looking to work together in a secure, flexible, and professionally managed environment.
Why choose Trust Health to support your Consultant LLP
20 years of specialist knowledge in supporting LLPs
We understand the unique requirements and challenges your LLP may encounter when contracting with the NHS. Our team ensures your LLP is fully set up, so you can hit the ground running.
End-to-End Support
From LLP formation to ongoing administration, we offer a full suite of services designed to make your business operations seamless and efficient.
Tailored Solutions
We customise our services to meet the specific needs of your partnership, from formation to ongoing management.
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Our Key Services
LLP Formation
and Registration
Get your LLP registered quickly and accurately with our expert guidance, ensuring your practice is set up for success from the start.
Partnership
Commissioning
Let us support you in negotiating a contract with your NHS Trust, including navigating fees, governance, indemnity and procurement.
Ongoing Administration
and Support
We provide a full ongoing admin service for you including allocating sessions, invoicing, and staff payroll management.
Are you ready to take the first steps in setting up your LLP? Click the button below to request a call from our team.
How does the process work?
At Trust Health, we make setting up an LLP simple and tailored to your needs. Here’s how the process works:
Initial call
Book a free initial call to discuss your needs
Online meeting
We will meet with the wider consultant group to answer any questions
Strategy
We will develop a plan tailored to your goals
Execution
Our team handles the setup of your LLP, negotiations with the NHS management, and the ongoing administration, so you can focus on your core activities
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Customer testimonials
“We engaged with Trust Health last year to help us set up an LLP with which to contract with our Trust. We met Sally early in the process and she and her staff were professional, efficient, polite and knowledgeable about all aspects of the process. Trust Health have extensive experience in this field, and were able to guide us through the right steps at the right time. There were multiple sticking points with our Trust, but Sally was persistent and diligent in dealing with these. She was able to reassure us and to provide invaluable information. I do not think the negotiations would have succeeded without Sally and Trust Health. We are very glad that we chose to use them and would recommend them without hesitation.”
Consultant Radiology LLP
“Trust Health has provided our LLP with excellent and reliable professional support services since 2007. Their in-depth knowledge of and advice on billing, and detailed approach to accurate invoicing has contributed significantly to the LLP’s profitability and success as a growing business.”
Consultant Anaesthetist and former Chair of LLP
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Frequently asked questions
How long does it take to set up the LLP?
The formation of an LLP can take place within a few days. However, it usually takes a few weeks as all members are required to sign the incorporation forms and provide a number of documents. Commissioning a contract of work will naturally take a longer period of time, and this will be discussed with you when agreeing your business plan.
Now we’ve made the decision to form an LLP, what do we do now?
We will meet with all the interested members and discuss the setup process and go through the legal paperwork and documents. We will agree a marketing and business plan with you and start work straight away on your behalf. We ensure that all members are fully aware of the contents of our very comprehensive LLP Members’ Agreement to avoid any ambiguities or issues that may arise later down the line.
Can you guarantee to commission us work?
No, we can never guarantee to commission an LLP work. When forming a business, success is never guaranteed. However, we will only suggest forming an LLP if there is a genuine need for your business in your local area, and we believe it will be a success. A successfully working LLP depends on a number of factors including ensuring there is a local need, reasonable fee proposals from the LLP, an open dialogue with management (usually through Trust Health), having an identified lead consultant within the LLP and a core number of LLP members.
How does the Trust Health model work?
Our nationally accepted model permits the LLP consultants to take responsibility for staffing of the theatre episode of a patient journey. All staff engaged in the theatre, including recovery, are engaged on a pay-per-procedure basis. Consultants and staff are paid a rate for each procedure that takes place, rather than on a sessional or hourly basis. It provides an efficient and cost-effective delivery model, whereby efficiency improvements of up to 30% can be seen. Trust Health takes control of all operational logistics, such as organisation of staffing for the lists, coding of procedures, invoicing and payment to all staff members, and resolution of challenges, allowing LLP consultants to focus on patients rather than administration.
How many members is a good number to form an LLP?
Only two members are required to form an LLP, but we would suggest four members as ideal, with the maximum number immaterial provided there is strong leadership within the LLP. If there are a large number of members, we would suggest having a “lead” for each specialty, for example, in orthopaedics, we would suggest an upper limb lead, a lower limb lead, a spinal lead, etc.
There is a shortage of beds in our hospital. Can we work through our LLP?
A shortage of beds is a common issue in hospitals, and the question is frequently asked how the LLP can provide additional work under these conditions. In this situation, we would suggest the LLP undertakes day case work only. One of the advantages of the LLP model is the flexibility provided to the hospital, and we would work with the hospital to identify alternative ways in which the LLP can assist.
Will we have a problem recruiting staff?
It is unlikely you will have issues with recruitment. In our experience, staff are extremely keen to undertake additional work for the LLP. We ensure that the payment rates are attractive for them and that the contracts and PAYE arrangements are taken care of, ensuring a simple process for staff.
Do you have financial case studies of how an LLP model will benefit an NHS Trust?
Yes, we can provide financial case studies of Trusts that have worked with the LLP model, including comparative costs of their current methods of working prior to engaging the LLP.
Do you have examples of how much consultants can expect to earn from LLP work in the NHS?
Yes, we can provide you with typical fees that consultants earn across the UK. The exact fees agreed with a Trust will be dependent on a number of factors including NHS tariff, volumes and case mix. Ultimately, the fees we propose to a Trust will be your decision, but we will recommend fees that we know from experience are acceptable to Trusts.