From a purely monetary perspective, have you ever thought “would I have been better off training as a doctor or a dentist?” It’s a question we’re asked by clients surprisingly often! Both doctors and dentists…
Continue readingAre you a home-owner with a mortgage, a retired medic trying to live off your pension income, or simply a saver trying to put funds aside for that special occasion or rainy day? Whoever you are, the tendrils of inflation touch us…
Continue readingThe deadline to elect for NHS Pensions’ Scheme Pays is only a few weeks away. If you miss it, you could face a tax penalty that will shortly need paying. “The deadline for what?” I…
Continue readingLoved and loathed, Clinical Excellence Awards (CEAs) are awarded to consultants and academic GPs who perform ‘over and above’ what is expected of them. Whatever your view of them, a new consultant contract may cause…
Continue reading“Money is 80% behaviour, 20% head knowledge. It’s what you do, not what you know.” That’s according to Dave Ramsey, America’s money expert, but – and it is a big but – without that 20%…
Continue readingPhilip Hammond’s first and last Spring Budget certainly provoked some strong backlash and continues to hit the front pages. Why exactly and how are doctors and dentists most likely to be affected by his announcements?…
Continue readingCalling all buy-to-let landlords. The new tax law that comes into force in April 2017 isn’t the only nail in the rental property coffin. Even more nails (4 more to be precise) now seem to…
Continue readingSo how do I/we end up in A+E promising my lovely, healthy eating, Exmoor loving, regular swimming, Snowdon climbing wife Lucie that, when she comes out of hospital, I will buy her a Jack Russell…
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