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19 Apr 2022 • Blog, Mental Health

STOP – and take good care of yourself! Five tips to look after your wellbeing during Stress Awareness Month

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

Stop, Collaborate and Listen

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…

29 Mar 2022 • Practice Management

Does confusion reign in the absence of a Plan?

Regional Sales Manager, Gary Nelson, explains how taking time to plan can help you regain some control in an uncertain world. The past two years have seen our personal and business lives often under the…

22 Mar 2022 • Practice Management

Michael Bentley on falling in love with dentistry and why it is never too late to learn new skills

We caught up with Dental Consultant, Michael Bentley, to discuss his varied career path, how he came to fall in love with dentistry, and why it is never too late to learn new skills… …

18 Feb 2022 • Practice Management

Confidence and how you and your team can develop it

Head of Sales, Zoe Close, caught up with Executive Coach Rebecca Mander, to talk about confidence, where it comes from, how we build it and why it is never too late to develop it… ZC:…

16 Feb 2022 • Blog, Switch, Uncategorized

The new hassle-free way to move to Practice Plan

Easy Switch, Regional Support Manager, Amy Hansford, explains why moving your membership patients to Practice Plan is easier than ever before thanks to their new EASY SWITCH process… During the 11 years I’ve worked…

8 Feb 2022 • Blog, Practice Management

Displacement…

It is widely recognised that most dental practices will lose 5% of their patients in any given (normal) year. A multitude of reasons – financial, moving house, death, illness, change in circumstances, the list goes on.

7 Feb 2022 • Mental Health

Dealing with burnout

Practice Plan Area Manager, Suki Singh, looks at four ways of dealing with burnout when you’re rushed off your feet in your practice…

28 Jan 2022 • HR & Employment Law

Recruiting the ideal team player

Business Coach, Chris Barrow, gives you a guide on what to look for when you’re trying to recruit the ideal team player…

14 Jan 2022 • Dental Landscape

How dentistry can help improve a patient’s general health

Sales and Marketing Director, Nigel Jones, caught up with Brian Anderson, of Total Health Screens, to look at how the company is offering general health screenings alongside dental appointments.

7 Jan 2022 • Mental Health

Psynergy – Dealing with mental health in practice

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……

27 Dec 2021 • Blog, Practice Management

The three Cs

Regional Support Manager, Gary Nelson, looks back at 2021 and three things for practices to look at… And so… we find ourselves at the end of another year. Another year where life has tossed and…

21 Dec 2021 • Blog

We left the NHS behind and would never go back

Back in 2006, Burton Family Dental in Burton-on-Trent made the decision to leave behind the NHS for a life in private dentistry with the help of Practice Plan. As partner and dentist, Catriona Archer explains…

16 Dec 2021 • Mental Health

The importance of a mental health first aider, and why you should have healthy conversations with your team

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…

9 Dec 2021 • Blog, NHS

The confidence to make a move…

Deborah Parson, Practice Manager at Weobley Dental Surgery, explains the reasons behind their move from NHS dentistry to private, why they chose Practice Plan to support them through the process and how the move has…

18 Nov 2021 • Blog, NHS

Going private was the right decision for us!

Back in 2020, the team at Plumfield Dental Practice started to talk more seriously about converting from NHS to private dentistry. Previously the topic had been brought up in conversations, but they had never pressed…

15 Nov 2021 • Marketing and Design

Social media pressure on dentists and how to deal with it

Practice Plan Area Manager, Suki Singh, caught up with dentist and Confidential trustee John Lewis, and newly qualified dentist Hiraa Jamil, to discuss the positives and negatives of using social media to promote your dental…

13 Nov 2021 • Marketing and Design

Three top tips to boost your digital marketing

Business coach Chris Barrow takes you through three tips on how to best utilise digital marketing, and looks at how Covid-19 related changes could be here to stay for some practices… Utilise all social channels…