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15 Oct 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Finance, Practice Management

How your trading structure forms the keystone to your dental business

Les Jones shares insights from Paul Griffiths, Specialist Dental Financial Consultant at Wesleyan, into how the trading structures of various businesses work and important considerations for your business… While the current climate may be a…

7 Oct 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Practice Management

Mobility and opportunity as we look ahead to 2021

Les Jones talks to Chris Barrow about the challenges facing dentists now and opportunities for the future… Since the beginning of lockdown, Chris Barrow has been in constant contact with hundreds of dentists through his…

1 Oct 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Finance, Practice Management

Your dentistry questions answered: financial forecasting

Practice Plan’s Donna Hall looks for answers to the questions you’re asking… My financial forecast isn’t where I thought it would be. How can I bridge the gap? Never has the saying ‘best laid plans’…

17 Sep 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Practice Management

The reality of reopening: part two

In my first blog that I wrote around four to five weeks after reopening, I spoke about how uncomfortable and cumbersome it was to work in the new levels of PPE. We’re now a further…

15 Sep 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Future of Dentistry, Practice Management

How teledentistry can fulfil the cosmetic dentistry boom

Teledentistry is the provision of dental care, advice or treatment without direct face-to-face patient contact. The concept has been around for a while, but it’s become potentially revolutionary for the industry following the advent of…

10 Sep 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Practice Management

How to best utilise your dental hygienist or therapist post-COVID-19

Amber Ojak, a Dental Therapist based in Edinburgh, shares some of her top tips on how you can reintroduce your dental hygienist or therapist back into the workplace and maximise their impact on your diary…

20 Aug 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Practice Management

Four lessons in communication learnt through COVID-19

If one good thing was to come from COVID-19 in terms of its effect on the dental community, it’s been the good practise in patient communication shown by many. Now is a critical time for…

14 Aug 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Finance, Practice Management

Why we run a membership-only practice and how you can too

Josie Hutchings speaks to Jessica Crawford-Clarke about their experience of running a practice on a membership-only basis… Financial security and reliability have always been important, but after recent events it may well have become more…

6 Aug 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Practice Management

Five simple steps to implement a successful plan membership

Tina Wixon offers her advice on how to grow your plan membership into a thriving part of your business… The value of a dental membership to a dental practice has become more and more apparent…

31 Jul 2020 • Blog, Practice Management

Do you have a structured plan approach?

To grow the number of patients on your dental payment plan, you need a structured approach. Once the plan has been in place for a while and an embedded part of your practice, it can…

31 Jul 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Practice Management

Give your plan numbers a boost with these five tips

During lockdown, those practices with a robust membership plan really felt the benefit of having such financial security in ways they probably never had before. While the reliability of a guaranteed monthly income has always…

30 Jul 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Practice Management

Creating a team training programme

Louise Bone looks at how to develop a training programme that will support your team and business to succeed post-COVID-19… If COVID-19 has taught us anything it’s that we have the ability to adapt, change…