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25 Apr 2014 • Practice Management

Are You Suffering With Employee Lateness?

Fear not! Peninsula Business Services are on hand to offer some sound advice on the policies and procedures to look at taking when dealing with regular and repeat offenders of lateness.

11 Apr 2014 • Marketing and Design, Practice Management

Full English Please!

Enjoying time together with breakfast or lunch and offering practice managers the opportunity to discuss an array of business issues, everyday challenges, marketing initiatives, plus lots more, Amy D’Arcy-Burt, Regional Support Manager at Practice Plan,…

4 Apr 2014 • Our News

We Made It!

CEO of Bridge2Aid, Mark Topley updates us on the success of reaching their £50,000 target following the launch of their urgent appeal. Hopefully you’ll have heard that we successfully reached our Urgent Appeal target of…

28 Mar 2014 • Blog, Marketing and Design, Practice Management

Have you heard about the new Facebook for businesses?

This week, social media gurus ApexHub fill us in on the recent changes to Facebook for business pages and how users of business pages can benefit from them! So, it may not be a brand-new…

21 Mar 2014 • Marketing and Design

Some People Think About Design As Putting Lipstick On A Gorilla!

Here, Marketing Director Les Jones talks us through exactly what he means… What I mean is that design is sometimes used to put a bit of surface gloss onto something that is fundamentally not that…

14 Mar 2014 • Practice Management, Our News

The First Perfect Patient Journey

One of the latest additions to the team, Events and Marketing Coordinator Ruth Martin, brings us up to speed on what to expect from her first project – a series of ‘Perfect Patient Journey’ events.…

7 Mar 2014 • Our News

Phew – What A Show That Was!

This week, guest blogger Sarah Whittall, Events and Marketing Coordinator at Practice Plan, joins us for a catch-up on the goings-on at The Dentistry Show. Well I wasn’t joking when I said in my pre-show…

28 Feb 2014 • Blog, NHS

Time To Take Stock

In this week’s blog, Sales Director Nigel Jones gives his insight into the uncertain nature of a new NHS dental contract.

21 Feb 2014 • Practice Management

Are You Taking New Patients? by Kevin Rose

Kevin Rose explains the importance of preparing your staff to answer the inevitable ‘Are you taking new patients?’ question and how your response to this could affect the amount of patients coming to your practice.

14 Feb 2014 • Practice Management

If Everything’s Going Great… Change NOW!

Practice Plan Marketing Director Les Jones explains why it’s best to invest in change when your practice is doing well, and how by doing so, it can build on your positive state. There’s no such…

7 Feb 2014 • Practice Management

The Business Skills Workshop Theatre Is Coming!

This week, guest blogger Sarah Whittall, Events and Marketing Coordinator at Practice Plan, joins us to whet our appetites as to what is in store at this year’s Dentistry Show. Well, where do I start?…

31 Jan 2014 • Practice Management

Employment Law Landscape for 2014

Just like previous years, 2014 is due to throw up plenty of new employment laws for us to get our heads around. Here, Peninsula Business Services give us an update on what changes are due…

24 Jan 2014 • Practice Management

What Is A ‘Perfect’ Patient Journey?

What we all have to remember about the patient journey is that it’s the patient’s journey, not ours. We have to start thinking about what the patient wants and what the patient is likely to…

17 Jan 2014 • Our News

Bridge2Aid’s Urgent Appeal

If you are on Bridge2Aid’s mailing list, connected to the charity through social media or generally involved in the dental profession in the UK then you may know by now that Bridge2Aid is currently facing…

20 Dec 2013 • Practice Management

New Girl On Tour!

Ruth Martin is the newest addition to the Marketing Team at Practice Plan as an Events and Marketing Coordinator. She joins us as a guest blogger to fill us in on the recent Workshop Tour…

13 Dec 2013 • Practice Management

Keeping Pace With Opportunity

In this week’s blog, Practice Plan‘s Sales Director Nigel Jones takes a look at how practices can take up new opportunities to help improve their practice revenue against the challenge of ever-rising costs. A key…

6 Dec 2013 • Marketing and Design

First Impressions – More Than Just Waiting

Here, we discuss why first impressions really do count and offer some ideas on how you can utilise your dental practice waiting room to help increase treatment uptake in your practice. Every day there’s an opportunity where…

8 Nov 2013 • Marketing and Design, Practice Management

When 2 Become 1 – We’re Having a Spice Girls Moment!

It’s an exciting time in the Practice Plan Design and Marketing Team at the moment (isn’t it always?). Not only have we just launched our fantastic new website – the result of many months of…