19 Aug 2022 • Mental Health
Andy Elwood explores five ways to improve your mental health by being your own best friend…. We’ve all had rough patches in the last year and the way I’ve coped is by using a technique…
28 Jul 2022 • Blog, Mental Health
The pandemic forced many charities to halt their activities abruptly. Some organisations used this period of forced inactivity to reassess their activities and look for ways of doing things better. Practice Plan Regional Support Manager,…
13 Jul 2022 • Blog, Mental Health
Practice Plan Area Manager, Gary Nelson muses on how we’re still juggling, but in a different world. Let me begin if I may with one of my favourite quotes… ‘Isn’t it funny how day by…
7 Jul 2022 • Mental Health
Here, we look at five ways you can lift your own mood and spirit and that of your staff… We can all feel a little bit low sometimes, and that could be down to things…
21 Jun 2022 • Mental Health
Louise Bone asks Johanna Hooper, a performance coach who specialises in leadership, three burning questions on how to support your team through tough times… LB: How can practice leaders support their team with the stress…
17 Jun 2022 • Mental Health
Caroline Suggett shares her two top mindfulness techniques that can help you take a break from the stresses and strains of practice life… First off, like many people you may be thinking, what is mindfulness?…
10 Jun 2022 • Blog, Mental Health
Studies consistently point to poor mental health being widespread within dentistry. Pre-pandemic research by Toon and colleagues showed that 10% of UK dentists had experienced suicidal thoughts, compared to the general population figure of 5%.…
6 Jun 2022 • Blog, Mental Health
Ian Eslick talks about the tragic story behind an epic walk taking place over the summer. Every year more than 6,000 people in the UK choose to take their own lives. That’s a staggering figure…
6 Jun 2022 • Blog, Dental Landscape, Mental Health
Any NHS dentist thinking about whether to move to private dentistry, is likely to be asking themselves whether the NHS has a future. And if it does, is it a future that they want to…
30 May 2022 • Blog, Mental Health
Practice Plan Area Regional Support Manager, Jayne Gibson, caught up with executive coach and founder of GuruYou, Rebecca Mander, to talk about what imposter phenomenon is and how people can overcome it… JG: We’re going…
25 May 2022 • Blog, Mental Health
Practice Plan’s Creative Director, Les Jones explains how making collages helped him during lockdown and has now become a part of his life. At the start of the first lockdown, I turned to art and…
19 May 2022 • Blog, Mental Health
To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, Regional Support Manager Amy Hansford, talks about this year’s theme: ‘Loneliness’. It’s important to underline that loneliness is not just about being alone. It might be a bit of…
Area Manager, Gary Nelson, talks about the importance of knowing how to regulate your mental bandwidth. I think we can all take it as read it’s been another punishing few months mentally in dentistry and…
19 Apr 2022 • Blog, Mental Health
As April is Stress Awareness Month, Tina Wixon shares five ideas to help you take care of your mental wellbeing in these trying times. The list of things that can cause us to be stressed…
14 Apr 2022 • Blog, Mental Health
Regional Support Manager, Gary Nelson harks back to his (relative) youth and finds an unexpected source of good advice for April’s Stress Awareness Month. Almost 32 years ago, back in 1990, Vanilla Ice released those…
7 Feb 2022 • Mental Health
Practice Plan Area Manager, Suki Singh, looks at four ways of dealing with burnout when you’re rushed off your feet in your practice…
7 Jan 2022 • Mental Health
Practice Plan Area Manager, Suki Singh, caught up with dentist Dr Ritesh Aggarwal, of Psynergy Mental Health, to talk about the work they do to help dental practices improve the mental health of their staff……
16 Dec 2021 • Mental Health
Sales Support Manager, Michelle Hardy, caught up with Inclusion and Diversity Manager for Wesleyan, Naheem Ahmed, to talk being a mental health first aider and the importance of having conversations with your staff… MH: Hi…
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