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30 May 2022 • Podcasts, Practice Management, Mental Health

Managing the welfare of your team

In this weeks episode of bodcast, Michael Bentley, Patient experience manager and dental business consultant talks about looking after the welfare and wellbeing of your team and shares practical ideas you can start implementing in…

30 May 2022 • Blog, Mental Health

What is imposter phenomenon?

Practice Plan Area Regional Support Manager, Jayne Gibson, caught up with executive coach and founder of GuruYou, Rebecca Mander, to talk about what imposter phenomenon is and how people can overcome it… JG: We’re going…

27 May 2022 • Blog, HR & Employment Law

Employed or self-employed? Presenting a clear difference.

Solicitor, Sarah Buxton, looks at how to clearly define whether your associates are employed, or self-employed. The issue of employment status has, aside from the pandemic, been arguably one of the biggest topics in dentistry…

25 May 2022 • Blog, Mental Health

Don’t tear your hair out, tear some paper instead

Practice Plan’s Creative Director, Les Jones explains how making collages helped him during lockdown and has now become a part of his life. At the start of the first lockdown, I turned to art and…

19 May 2022 • Blog, Mental Health

Mental health awareness month: Loneliness – you’re not alone in feeling lonely

To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, Regional Support Manager Amy Hansford, talks about this year’s theme: ‘Loneliness’. It’s important to underline that loneliness is not just about being alone. It might be a bit of…

19 May 2022 • Blog, Mental Health

Extra Power or Low Battery… The Triggers

Area Manager, Gary Nelson, talks about the importance of knowing how to regulate your mental bandwidth. I think we can all take it as read it’s been another punishing few months mentally in dentistry and…

18 May 2022 • Podcasts, Mental Health

Why wellbeing matters in dentistry

Hussein Hassanali, Associate Dentist at Woodthorpe Dental Centre catches up with Dr Mahrukh Khwaja, CEO of Mind Ninja, to discuss the importance of wellbeing for dentists and practical tips to incorporate mindfulness in practice. What…

17 May 2022 • Podcasts, Mental Health

Loneliness and isolation in dentistry

In this latest episode of Bodcast, Hussein Hassanali, Associate Dentist at Woodthorpe Dental Centre catches up with Dr Mahrukh Khwaja, CEO of Mind Ninja, to share their thoughts and personal experiences of loneliness in dentistry…

19 Apr 2022 • Blog, Mental Health

STOP – and take good care of yourself! Five tips to look after your wellbeing during Stress Awareness Month

As April is Stress Awareness Month, Tina Wixon shares five ideas to help you take care of your mental wellbeing in these trying times. The list of things that can cause us to be stressed…

14 Apr 2022 • Blog, Mental Health

Stop, Collaborate and Listen

Regional Support Manager, Gary Nelson harks back to his (relative) youth and finds an unexpected source of good advice for April’s Stress Awareness Month. Almost 32 years ago, back in 1990, Vanilla Ice released those…

7 Feb 2022 • Mental Health

Dealing with burnout

Practice Plan Area Manager, Suki Singh, looks at four ways of dealing with burnout when you’re rushed off your feet in your practice…

3 Feb 2022 • Podcasts, Mental Health

Young dentists leaving the profession

Jonathan Drury catches up with Lucy Li, Associate Dentist at Rowcroft Dental and Implant Centre to discuss burn out and mental health in the dental industry and why many young dentists are leaving the profession.…

7 Jan 2022 • Mental Health

Psynergy – Dealing with mental health in practice

Practice Plan Area Manager, Suki Singh, caught up with dentist Dr Ritesh Aggarwal, of Psynergy Mental Health, to talk about the work they do to help dental practices improve the mental health of their staff……

23 Dec 2021 • Podcasts, Mental Health

Psynergy Mental Health

Dr Ritesh Aggarwal joins us in this latest bodcast to discuss Psynergy mental health, the wellbeing programme designed specifically for dental practices and his top tips to start talking about mental health. What you’ll hear:…

16 Dec 2021 • Mental Health

The importance of a mental health first aider, and why you should have healthy conversations with your team

Sales Support Manager, Michelle Hardy, caught up with Inclusion and Diversity Manager for Wesleyan, Naheem Ahmed, to talk being a mental health first aider and the importance of having conversations with your staff… MH: Hi…

26 Nov 2021 • Podcasts, Dental Landscape

Reflections on 2021

Nigel Jones, Sales and Marketing Director at Practice Plan Group looks back on this year, the challenges the dental industry has faced and his thoughts for 2022. What you’ll hear: Reflections on 2021 Challenges the…

8 Nov 2021 • Mental Health

Top tips to help with a healthier and happier lifestyle

Regional Support Manager, Sarah Barnard, gives you a number of tips for living a healthier and happier lifestyle, both in and out of practice… As we all know dentistry can be a stressful profession –…

24 Sep 2021 • Practice Management

From Pizza Land to helping practices thrive and achieve their potential; Zoe Close on her varied career

Practice Plan’s Head of Sales, Zoe Close, talks about her varied 36-year career in dentistry and looks at some of the lessons she has learned along the way…. Dentistry is an industry that I have…