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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,…

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…

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…

1 Mar 2021 • Blog, Covid-19, Uncategorized

Reasons to be confident in a brighter 2021

The recession we’re now in, following COVID-19, is the seventh I’ve experienced. So far, I have survived all seven. Recession doesn’t necessarily equal the failure of your business. Something that is worth remembering among all…

28 Jan 2021 • Uncategorized

Inside Out: NHS Dentistry Discussed with Eddie Crouch

Hear Nigel Jones, Practice Plan Group Sales and Marketing Director, and Eddie Crouch, Chair of the British Dental Association’s Principal Executive Committee, as they reflect on the tumultuous goings-on of 2020 and how the Covid-19…

30 Dec 2020 • Podcasts, Practice Management, Uncategorized

The five R’s of recovery: Rebuild

Following on the from the first two R’s of Recovery BoDcasts, Andy McLachlan talks to Aemelia Wright about ‘Rebuild’ in the third of this five part series. Offering an insight into the course available from…

6 Nov 2020 • Uncategorized

Inside Out: NHS Dentistry Discussed – Spotlight on Scotland

Catch-up on Inside Out: NHS Dentistry Discussed – Spotlight on Scotland… Listen back to Nigel Jones, Practice Plan Sales and Marketing Director, in conversation with Mohammed Samad, a Practice Owner based in Glasgow and Founding…

3 Nov 2020 • Uncategorized

Inside Out: NHS Dentistry Discussed with John Milne

It’s time for episode six of Inside Out: NHS Dentistry Discussed… Nigel Jones, Practice Plan Sales and Marketing Director, talks to John Milne, the Senior National Dental Adviser to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and…