Best Value Groups

NPAG’s Best Value Groups were established to facilitate networking and benchmarking activities. Our Best Value Groups enable members to share experiences and identify good practice, assist individual managers in developing their own service improvement plans and seek continuous improvement in terms of quality, fitness-for-purpose, performance and value for money.

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Sponsor a Best Value Group

NPAG members are always keen to hear of new products and services. By inviting companies and organisations to the meetings:

  • Members can focus on products and services that interest them
  • Presentations can be tailor made
  • A post presentation discussion amongst peers is facilitated

 By sponsoring a Best Value Group


  • Companies present to an interested audience
  • Companies can offer a predefined audience attractive deals
  • Sponsorship is welcomed in the form of a financial contribution to the costs for the meeting
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Membership FAQ's

  • What is a Best Value Group?

    An NPAG Best Value Group is a structured networking forum for healthcare professionals to meet, discuss current issues and receive presentations on topics that they are interested in. Its prime purpose is to support managers in the continuous improvement of their own services.

  • What can Best Value Groups offer me?

    • Opportunity to share information and experience being part of an open and honest environment
    • Presentations from topical speakers
    • Benchmarking exercises, debate policy and identify innovation and good working practice
    • Helps save your Trust money
    • NPAG conferences at a discounted delegate rate
    • An annual CPD certificate at the end of each year to verify attendance at BVG meetings
    • Access to the NPAGNetwork - a managed question and answer service enabling members to unlock the information held by the entire network of NPAG members

  • Where do Best Value Groups meet?

    Our BVG meetings are a mix of virtual meetings via MS Teams and face-to-face meetings at centrally located venues. 

    Microsoft Teams enables us to invite and manage members and guest participation in a secure and safe environment. Speakers can share content and presentations using the share screen facility. Members are encouraged to use the ‘raise hand’ and ‘chat’ facility to interact as you would at a face-to-face venue. 


    The beauty of a virtual meeting is it reduces the cost of travel to and from an event and saves the precious commodity of time away from the office. Not forgetting to mention the added benefit of a reduction in our carbon footprint. 


    Living with Covid now sees us able to reintroduce the face-to-face element to our BVG meetings. The venues for BVGs are always chosen for accessibility and suitability - typically they will be in central London or the Midlands. We consciously choose venues that are acting sustainably in accordance with the NPAG Green Plan, supporting the NHS Net Zero initiative.

  • What is the time commitment?

    The majority of groups meet four times a year. There is some work, such as benchmarking exercises, that need to be completed between meetings.

  • What happens between meetings?

    The amount of interaction between meetings is driven by the group members. Often BVGs set up email groups to enable ongoing questions and sharing of information between meetings. Microsoft Teams have an option to share files, and the chat facility within a meeting stays live for 30 days for members to access information as they wish.


    We actively encourage members to share information that we can upload onto the members area of the website.

  • Are the Best Value Groups value for money?

    The average annual cost for a BVG meeting four times a year is approximately £660 per member and any further members at a discounted rate of £300. In comparison a year’s membership is less than the average cost of employing a management consultant for a day.


    The membership fee is currently under review for each group. This is to reflect meetings taking place on MS Teams.

  • New developments

    NPAG is continually striving to develop further services for members as part of the annual subscription. Find out more about our Best Value Groups.

  • What is the NPAG Network?

    The NPAGNetwork is a managed forum for colleagues to share information and best practice - saving time and money in not re-inventing the wheel. Developed by NPAG, it recognises the need for a forum for healthcare managers to ask questions, request assistance and information, share documents, and get professional and practical advice from their peers throughout the UK. 


    Members of the NPAG's Best Value and National Networking Groups form the nucleus of the Network, providing over 600 contacts throughout the UK.


    The NPAGNetwork is available to members of our Best Value and National Networking Groups. Contact us to subscribe. 

Refer a friend

Get 1 meeting for free!

A member referral resulting in another Trust / Organisation registering for full membership of the same group will result in the referring member qualifying for a 1 meeting discount. 


The discount applies to the full membership fee only (not applicable to the 2nd member rate). The discount will be applied once, at the start of the current meeting round. Mid-round membership referral discounts will be processed at the start of the following year’s membership round. 


Multiple referrals will result in multiple discounts up to 4 referrals per meeting round.

Try Before You Buy

We recognise that with such a wide-ranging portfolio and with each group operating slightly differently, committing to a full year’s membership can sometimes be a difficult decision. That’s why we offer all new members our Try Before You Buy option. Simply attend a meeting of a group’s round, see what it’s all about and if you decide it’s not for you, walk away commitment free.


The Try Before You Buy option is available to new members only. New members must inform NPAG in writing that they with to ‘try before they buy’ prior to their first meeting attendance. If the new member continues membership beyond  this meeting then the  membership fee  will be adjusted accordingly to complete the round.

Additional Membership Discount

With a wide portfolio of groups, it is unsurprising that a number of them have strong links. Recently we have noticed several of our members have elected to join more than one of our groups. With this in mind, we are able to offer all first members a 25% membership discount if they join another group. In most cases this results in a membership fee reduction of over £100!


The 25% discount is applied when an existing NPAG group member joins an additional NPAG group. This only applies to the higher membership rate for the first member from an organisation.