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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.

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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…

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Take the Lead from Blue Peter

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

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Nutrition for Dentition

Nutritional Therapist Natasha Wilcock shares her top round-up of nutritional strategies to aid oral health.

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Why Go Private?

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

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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.

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Beth Brown Introduces Practice Plan Regional Events

Beth Brown, Events and Marketing Assistant at Practice Plan, introduces a new series of events that are taking the country by storm.

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All the Gear, No Idea

How does a pair of boxed Nike trainers represent how some practices try working towards their goals? Guest blogger Eleanor Young (Regional Support Manager at Practice Plan) explains…

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Supporting National Smile Month with the #PPSugarFree Challenge – Part 2

As we mentioned in our last ‘Sugar-Free Diaries’ blog post, in line with National Smile Month (the longest running and largest oral health campaign in the UK), a team of ten willing volunteers decided to…

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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…

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Why is it so Difficult to Reduce Sugar Individually?

Today, our guest blogger, Dr Tony Kilcoyne shares his views on sugar and why its growing appearance within the food industry is a cause for concern.

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Supporting National Smile Month with the #PPSugarFree Challenge

National Smile Month is both the longest running and largest oral health campaign in the UK. Taking place this year from 18th May until 18th June, the campaign focuses on three key elements:

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Create Value

‘Create Value’ is today’s top-tip from sales coach, Ashley Latter. Ashley’s advice is to stop using the words price, cost or fees when discussing a treatment plan, but instead to focus what the patient’s investment…

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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…

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#PPSugarFree Infographic – Join The Sugar Swap!

Our thought provoking infographic is ideal for downloading and sharing with your patients.

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Interview With Claire Roberts: Reflecting on The Future of The NHS

Following the results of the first NHS Confidence Monitor Survey , commissioned by Practice Plan, we catch up with practising dentist, Claire Roberts to get her views on the future of NHS dentistry.

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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…

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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.

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