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24 Jul 2015 • Blog, NHS

Team Games

Michelle Hardy joins forces with Sheila Scott to share their top tips on how best to involve your team when thinking about leaving the NHS.

17 Jul 2015 • Our News

Danielle Quigley, Events and Marketing Manager, Introduces This Year’s Practice Plan Workshop Tour

Every year, the challenge of finding the perfect host for our Workshop Tour gets harder. Having had some of the best speakers in the industry headline our tours in the past, the bar gets raised…

15 Jul 2015 • Practice Management

Take the Lead from Blue Peter

Can you remember all those Blue Peter charity appeals from when you were a child?

3 Jul 2015 • Blog, NHS

Why Go Private?

Josie Hutchings explores the potential benefits of private practice for you, your team, your patients and the business.

1 Jul 2015 • Practice Management

Coach – Don’t Tell

If you want to develop your people management skills, Sheila Scott maintains that the most useful course you could find and book onto will be an on going coaching or counselling skills course.

5 Jun 2015 • Practice Management

Communication is Key to a Successful Move From NHS to Private Dentistry

As the finer details of the proposed NHS contract reform become clearer, many dentists, faced with a limited scope for increasing income and a growing administrative burden, are starting to seriously consider a move to…

22 May 2015 • Dental Health

Sweet Freedom

Sugar has been in the news again with the World Health Organisation (WHO) recently issuing a conditional recommendation to reduce daily intake of free sugars from the current 10%, down to only 5%. We caught up…

8 May 2015 • Practice Management

10 Tips to Build an Engaged Team

Engaged staff are more productive, more focused on customers, work more safely and are more loyal to their employer – but how can you nurture an engaged team? That’s where guest blogger Sheila Scott comes…

1 May 2015 • Practice Management

How to Keep Calm When Your to-do List Seems Unmanageable

Pensinsula Business Services are on hand to offer their top tips on how practice managers can keep calm and effectively manage their workload.

24 Apr 2015 • Practice Management, HR & Employment Law

Is Sickness Causing You a Headache?

Sickness in any small business can be a real problem as each member of the team relies on one another to be able to operate effectively and efficiently. Here, Emma John shares her advice on…

10 Apr 2015 • Practice Management

Why Your Practice Should Define, Measure and Improve

For many practices, the challenge of increasing their income is one that can be a significant preoccupation. Increasing the number of new patients to address gaps in an appointment book is a logical step and…

3 Apr 2015 • Practice Management, HR & Employment Law

Creating a Great Team

Guest blogger, Kevin Rose shares his top tips on how to create and maintain a top-notch team!

25 Mar 2015 • Practice Management

Demonstrate Excellence in Your Teamwork

Today’s ‘Top Tip’ from Chris Barrow is to ‘demonstrate excellence in your teamwork’.

9 Mar 2015 • Practice Management

Talk in HD

‘Talk in HD’ – that’s today’s Top Tip from selling coach and Medenta Director, Richard Collard.

6 Mar 2015 • Practice Management

Top Tips to Boost Your Plan Uptake

Do you want to increase the number of patients you have on your membership plan, but are finding it difficult to let them know the reasons why they should join it? Here, Regional Support Manager…

27 Feb 2015 • Marketing and Design

Why it’s Worth Investing in Marketing Your Practice and Your Patient Membership Plan…

Les Jones explains the importance of marketing your practice, and your patient membership plan to help you to attract new patients and retain existing ones.

24 Feb 2015 • Practice Management

Develop Your Vision With The Team

Business consultant, Sheila Scott is back to share some more words of wisdom for this week’s top tip… ‘Develop your vision with the team.’

20 Feb 2015 • Dental Health

Extracting the Evidence

Over the past few months, the national news has been in uproar over the state of children’s dental health. So, we’ve enlisted the help of Nutritional Therapist Natasha Wilcock to provide this week’s blog. Specifically…