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17 Apr 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Practice Management

Eight tips for leadership during uncertain times

Strong leadership is needed more than ever in these uncertain times created by COVID-19. If you have the role of a leader in your dental practice, your team will be looking to you for direction…

17 Apr 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Practice Management

How can I recover my business from a hardship?

Practice Plan’s Louise Bone looks for answers to the questions you’re asking… The impact of the Coronavirus means dental practices are facing what is surely their most testing time ever. While dealing with the immediate…

16 Apr 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Practice Management

Top tips to lead your practice in turbulent times

At a time like this, it’s natural to think that we don’t have the answers to deal with the unprecedented challenges that are impacting the dental industry as the world succumbs to the COVID-19 pandemic.…

15 Apr 2020 • Blog, Covid-19

Tips to work from home

Matt Hadman, Regional Support Manager shares his top tips on how to work from home. The challenging times we are currently facing mean many of us are now ‘working from home’. It can be quite…

14 Apr 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Practice Management

The COVID-19 Blog – Easter

I’ve written these days as one entry, not because nothing has happened, but because I haven’t had time to sit down until now (day 17) to metaphorically put pen to paper. The days are all…

8 Apr 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Practice Management

The COVID-19 blog – Starting a new week

Monday dawns like no other Monday. It’s definitely Groundhog Day again, and I’ve no idea how close to Easter we now are. I recall that I probably should have been packing to go on a…

6 Apr 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Practice Management

The Covid-19 Blog – Reflecting on Friday

The day the Chief Dental Officer (CDO) speaks to us and finally breaks cover. I’m actually looking forward to some leadership at long last and feel quietly confident we are going to get through this.…

3 Apr 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Practice Management

Simon Thackeray reflects on the last couple of days

As much as things these days can have a degree of normality, today feels like it is going to be normal. The staff got paid yesterday, and today the associates need their monthly calculations doing…

2 Apr 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Practice Management

How to mothball your surgery

In 2010, Claire Roberts’ dental practice suffered a complete rebuild following a gas explosion. She found herself having to close the practice, a situation that many are now in due to the outbreak of Covid-19.…

1 Apr 2020 • Blog, Covid-19

Reflecting on the last two days with Simon Thackeray

Monday mornings have always been my most hated morning up until recently. Just over a year ago I decided to stop working Mondays. Since then the odd Sunday night feeling I’d had, even as far…

31 Mar 2020 • Blog, Covid-19

What is furlough and what does it mean for me?

Up until recently the word ‘furlough’ had barely, if at all, registered with most of us. Now it seems as if it is one of the most talked about topics in dentistry thanks to Covid-19…

30 Mar 2020 • Blog, Covid-19

Coronavirus – financial considerations for dentists

It’s no exaggeration to say that the coronavirus pandemic could have enormous economic implications for the dental industry. In my current role at Wesleyan Bank, I’ve become acutely aware of the challenges practice owners are…

30 Mar 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Dental Landscape

A weekend in the life of a dentist during COVID-19

It’s Friday, and my first session this week as the duty dentist. My three associates – Julia, Rich and Andy – have already done their stints, but this is the first one that will be…

27 Mar 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Dental Landscape

How do you protect your plan income during the COVID-19 crisis

For dentists across the UK, this is a hugely worrying time with almost every practice either closed or open for emergency treatment only. However, for practices with a patient plan in place, there is some…

27 Mar 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Dental Landscape

A day in the life of a dentist during COVID-19 – Day 2

After appearing to fail to achieve anything at all yesterday, today started with the intentions of working on the to-do list more religiously than previously. It started off with making sure all the remote working…

26 Mar 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Dental Landscape

A day in the life of a dentist during COVID-19 – Day 1

It seems like I’m in a surreal Christmas/disaster movie, all the days have started to merge into one. I’ve been asked to write a bit of a blog/diary about what is happening in my life…