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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…

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…

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,…

18 Dec 2024 • Blog, Marketing and Design, Uncategorized

Unlock the power of automation!

In this guest blog Neil Stephen, CEO of specialist dental CRM software company, DenGro, outlines the benefits to practices of automating repetitive tasks. Amidst the noise, the hype and the buzzwords like AI, robotics and…

11 Dec 2024 • Blog, Our News, Uncategorized

Sustainability at Practice Plan – Genuine progress based on firm foundations

Practice Plan is part of Wesleyan Assurance Society and thanks to its overarching Sustainability Strategy, we have made considerable progress in improving our sustainability credentials throughout 2024. Wesleyan’s Group Sustainability Manager, Dan Gamson, reflects on…

2 Dec 2024 • Blog, Practice Management, Uncategorized

Increase your patients’ perception of the value of your routine examinations

In this blog, Regional Support Manager, Josie Hutchings, urges practices to take steps to encourage regular attendance by increasing the perceived value of routine examinations for patients. Despite inflation having returned to its pre-Truss budget…

8 Nov 2024 • Blog, Marketing and Design, Uncategorized

Social media – Facebook good practise with Gemma Starkey aka Miss Social

In the first of a series of blogs about the benefits of social media for dental practices, Gemma Starkey aka Miss Social, talks about how to get the best out of your use of Facebook.…

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…

5 Aug 2024 • Blog, Finance, Uncategorized

Basis Period Reform – What does it mean, and does it affect me?

In this guest blog, Mark Simic, Managing Partner at tax and accountancy firm, Simpkins Edwards, highlights a change to tax laws that could affect many self-employed members of the dental profession. Firstly, Basis Period Reform…

28 Jun 2024 • Blog, Dental Landscape, Uncategorized

Inappropriate behaviour in dentistry– it could affect anyone

Executive Director of the Society of British Dental Nurses, Fiona Ellwood, talks about the investigation and gathering of data, which is revealing to some extent, the level of sexual assaults, harassment and inappropriate and unwanted…

17 Jun 2024 • Podcasts, Practice Management, Uncategorized

Accelerate becoming a super associate with Dr Amit Jilka and Dr Kalpesh Prajapat

Hazel Dockery from Practice Plan is joined by Dr Amit Jilka and Dr Kalpesh Prajapat, Practice Owner and Dentists at Abbey House Dental, to talk about navigating the path to success for dentists with their…

28 Feb 2024 • Podcasts, Practice Management, Uncategorized

How to elevate social media in your dental practice

Hazel Dockery catches up with Gemma Starkey, Social media consultant also known as ‘Miss Social’. Gemma shares her hints on how to get started with social media and discusses its impact and relevance for dental…

26 Jan 2024 • Podcasts, Practice Management, Uncategorized

Top tips for keeping a happy and motivated team

Hazel Dockery is joined by Emilia Forrester, Multi-Award winning dental nurse, who shares her top tips for creating and maintaining a happy and motivated team. What you’ll hear: How Emilia got into dental nursing and…

4 Aug 2023 • Podcasts, Practice Management, Uncategorized

Opportunities to up-skill for dental nurses

Michelle Hardy, Sales Support Manager at Practice Plan catches up with Fiona Ellwood BEM, Executive Director at the Society of British Dental Nurses, to discuss the role of a dental nurse, the importance of them…

16 Feb 2022 • Blog, Switch, Uncategorized

The new hassle-free way to move to Practice Plan

Easy Switch, Regional Support Manager, Amy Hansford, explains why moving your membership patients to Practice Plan is easier than ever before thanks to their new EASY SWITCH process… During the 11 years I’ve worked…

31 Mar 2021 • Uncategorized

Suspension on requirement for patient signature on dental forms extended

The government has confirmed that the exemption on patient prescription signing will be extended by three months. The Department of Health and Social Care have announced that patients will not have to sign dental forms…

12 Mar 2021 • Uncategorized

Inside Out: NHS Dentistry Discussed with Ian Mills

Catch-up on Inside Out: NHS Dentistry Discussed with Nigel Jones and Ian Mills Hear Nigel Jones, Practice Plan Sales and Marketing Director, and Ian Mills, Dean of the Faculty of General Dental Practice (FGDP), discuss…