Email: james.kennedy@cowgills.co.uk
Financial support that helps
healthcare providers thrive
How we champion
your business
Healthcare professionals juggle patient care with complex financial and
operational demands.
At Sumer, we provide clear, tailored support that helps you stay compliant, reduce stress and focus on running a strong, future-ready practice. With deep sector knowledge and a practical approach, we’ll help make sure your business thrives without ever losing sight of why you do what you do.
4 Reasons to Choose Sumer
Structure your practice for success:
Expert guidance on partnerships, incorporation and models that fit your goals.
Boost profitability with insight:
Practical analysis of services, patients and operations to help your practice perform at its best.
Simplify NHS contracts and pensions:
Specialist support to help you handle the details and focus on care.
Plan your next chapter with confidence:
Strategic advice on growth, succession and retirement, all built around you.
Meet the team
Jenny Hurst
Yorkshire and the Humber
Jenny Hurst
Email: jenny.hurst@bhp.co.uk
Katie Collin
London
Katie Collin
Katie specialises in advising GP partners, Primary Care Networks and healthcare leaders on the financial and structural challenges facing modern primary care. With over 10 years’ experience in medical accountancy, she works at the intersection of tax, pensions, governance and strategy, helping clients navigate change with clarity and conviction.
She began her career in audit at HW Fisher before moving to BDO, where she further developed her experience within professional services. She later chose to focus exclusively on the healthcare sector, joining Ramsay Brown to build deep expertise in medical accountancy and to work closely with GP partners and primary care organisations. That decision defined the direction of her career.
Compliance is only the starting point. She advises on partnership evolution, funding reform, performance benchmarking and long-term sustainability. In an environment of increasing financial pressure and regulatory complexity, what excites her most is working closely with clients to understand what they truly need, helping GP partners and practice leaders tackle complex financial and structural challenges with clarity and confidence.
Alongside her client advisory work, she is actively engaged in shaping the wider conversation around the future of primary care. She regularly contributes to sector publications and industry commentary, and she hosts the “Beyond the Balance Sheet” podcast, where she explores the financial and operational issues impacting clinicians and practice leaders. she is passionate about championing a sustainable and forward-looking model for general practice, ensuring financial insight plays a central role in its evolution.
Email: katiecollin@ramsaybrown.com
Laurence Slavin
London
Laurence Slavin
For nearly four decades Laurence has been at the centre of financial and structural change in the NHS, advising generations of GPs, consultants, and healthcare professionals through some of the most consequential shifts in the history of British medicine.
He trained as a Chartered Accountant with Stoy Hayward (now BDO), specialising in tax, before joining Ramsay Brown in the mid-1980s. The firm was his father’s. When he passed, Laurence took on the responsibility of leading it and made it his mission to build the firm the medical profession deserved: one defined by genuine specialism, earned trust, and advice that made a real difference to people’s careers and livelihoods. Appointed Partner in 1987, he led the firm’s development ever since.
His expertise spans NHS contract reform, pension planning, partnership structuring and disputes, and long-term strategic advisory for medical professionals at every stage of their careers. He has advised the NHS Executive, contributed evidence to the Doctors and Dentists Review Body, and sat on national committees for the Department of Health and the British Medical Association. He is a published author and a regular contributor to the healthcare finance press, and has delivered talks across the UK and internationally.
Clients come to him for technical expertise. What they remember is something different: that he listens carefully and that he understands the pressures they are under. Good advice is built on that kind of attention. It always has been.
As a mentor, he has spent years helping to develop the next generation of advisers within the firm, instilling a culture of curiosity, integrity, and professional pride. That is as important to him as any technical work he has done.
Email: Laurence@ramsaybrown.com
Louise Grant
Scotland
Lucienne Parry
South West
Lucienne Parry
Rachelle Kilpin
Yorkshire and the Humber
Rachelle Kilpin
Email: rachelle.kilpin@bhp.co.uk
Richard Horton
Midlands
Richard Horton
Email: RichardHorton@jerroms.co.uk
Richard Humphreys
North East
Robert Branch
South West
Robert Branch
Email: robert.branch@monahans.co.uk
There are plenty of ways Sumer can make a
difference to your business.
But if we had to pick one, it’s our people. With partner-led services from local experts in every region, we offer national scale and personal
support from people who understand your sector and your community. From succession planning and exits to international growth, our
specialists are here to help you make the big decisions with confidence.