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22 May 2025 • Blog, Events, Our News

Dentistry Show Birmingham 2025 – a fantastic whirlwind!

How do we sum up the whirlwind that was Practice Plan’s presence at Dentistry Show Birmingham? We could start by saying that, once again, in our Dental Business Growth Theatre we provided a programme of…

15 May 2025 • Blog, Finance

Guesswork to game plan: winning the retirement game

Planning for retirement as a dentist can sometimes feel like playing an endless game of snakes and ladders. One year you’re climbing steadily with a growing pension pot and a thriving practice, and the next…

9 May 2025 • Blog, Mental Health, Uncategorized

Mental Health Awareness Week – Burnout: how to spot the signs and what to do about it

To mark Mental Health Awareness Week (12th – 18th May), we explore burnout – how to spot the signs and how to prevent it. Sadly, burnout is common among members of the dental profession. A…

1 May 2025 • Blog, HR & Employment Law

Practice HR Spring cleaning – do you maintain your data protection policies, and employment contracts?

Do you update and maintain your data protection policies? Have you reviewed your employment contracts recently? Specialist HR and Employment Solicitor Sarah Buxton, explains why there are some areas of practice HR that should be…

29 Apr 2025 • Blog, Our News

Supporting our practices with prioritising mental health awareness

It’s been reported in a recent survey carried out on 1629 dental professionals that close to two thirds of the profession feels burnt out. 63% of respondents said they were frequently exhausted and 50% felt…

9 Apr 2025 • Blog, Finance, Uncategorized

Saving and investing: how to turn an egg into a golden goose

Stephen Lart, dental Specialist Financial Adviser at Wesleyan Financial Services, breaks down financial jargon and shares the secret to growing wealth, whether it’s for yourself or your practice… As a dentist, you understand the value…

13 Mar 2025 • Blog, Practice Management

How to Set Up a Squat Dental Practice

Regional Support Manager, Chris Nicholson, shares some things to consider when setting up a squat dental practice. Squat dental practices have grown in popularity over the past few years. As patient access to NHS dentistry…

28 Feb 2025 • Blog, HR & Employment Law

The workplace changes you need to know about with Sarah Buxton

Employment legislation is an ever-changing field so it’s easy to lose track when new laws and policies are introduced. Here Regional Support Manager, Fliss McCalmont, speaks to HR and Employment law solicitor and Director of…

20 Feb 2025 • Blog, Marketing and Design

Social media in practice made easy with Gemma Starkey aka Miss Social

In the next blog in our series about social media, Gemma Starkey, aka Miss Social, suggests ways to make the life of your practice social media officer much easier. Let’s face it, social media is…

4 Feb 2025 • Blog, Practice Management, Uncategorized

Turning Scrap into Charity Gold with Leticia Casanova of Gold for Kids

Dr Leticia Casanova, periodontist and co-founder of the charity Gold for Kids, explains more about the charity and its work. It was when my husband and I started our practice, London Periodontic Implants and Dentistry,…

24 Jan 2025 • Blog, Practice Management

Be informed – Building rapport with five bums on a rugby post

Regional Support Manager, Deborah Bell, shares a visual technique to help build rapport with patients. Building rapport with your patients is essential if you want to achieve a long-term relationship with them. Having rapport also…

10 Jan 2025 • Blog, Marketing and Design

Empowering Dental Practices to Master Video Content for Social Media

Practice Plan Social Media Executive, Jordan Gale, provides useful tips to help Dental Practices embrace video content and overcome their fears. Why Video Matters for Dental Practices Did you know that 67% of marketers say…

23 Dec 2024 • Blog, Practice Management

Don’t just offer, prescribe plan membership to your patients

Regional Support Manager, Jo Phillpot, suggests ways to ensure your patients sign up to the correct plan for them. While it’s true that having a membership plan in place offers your patients a great way…

3 Jan 2025 • Blog, NHS

Be happy – Is 2025 the year you take back control of your business?

Did you take some time over the Christmas break to think about your business aims for the next 12 months? Perhaps you’d like to make a few changes to the way you run your business.…

18 Nov 2024 • Blog, Finance

Get your fee increases right

As the costs of running a dental practice continue to rise, it’s important to make sure that your plan fees keep pace. Regional Support Manager (RSM), Josie Hutchings, shares some advice on how best to…

10 Oct 2024 • Blog, Practice Management, Uncategorized

Understanding your practice costs

Regional Support Manager, Sarah Barnard, highlights the importance of understanding practice costs. Do you know the operating costs per surgery, per day for your practice? If your answer to that is ‘no’, then it seems…

20 Sep 2024 • Blog, Practice Management, Uncategorized

Becoming a Treatment Co-ordinator with Kayleigh Robinson

Treatment Coordinator, Kayleigh Robinson, offers advice to aspiring Treatment Coordinators (TCOs) and charts her career path to date. There are many different types of TCO and I suppose in some ways we all do the…

16 Sep 2024 • Blog, Events

Five reasons to visit Practice Plan at Dentistry Show London

Once again, the Practice Plan team will be at Dentistry Show London on 4th and 5th October 2024. So here are five reasons why you should come along and say hello to us at Stand…