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13 Mar 2025 • Blog, Practice Management

How to Set Up a Squat Dental Practice

Regional Support Manager, Chris Nicholson, shares some things to consider when setting up a squat dental practice. Squat dental practices have grown in popularity over the past few years. As patient access to NHS dentistry…

7 Mar 2025 • Blog, Marketing and Design

Branding and what it should say about you

What is branding? Many people think it’s a logo and some stationery. However, as the Design team at Practice Plan will tell you, it’s much more than that. And they should know! With more than…

10 Mar 2025 • Our News

Supporting our team’s wellbeing with guided meditation

Here at Practice Plan, we believe that a happy, healthy team is key to a thriving workplace. That’s why we’re always looking for new ways to support our people’s wellbeing. To mark International Women’s Day,…

28 Feb 2025 • Blog, HR & Employment Law

The workplace changes you need to know about with Sarah Buxton

Employment legislation is an ever-changing field so it’s easy to lose track when new laws and policies are introduced. Here Regional Support Manager, Fliss McCalmont, speaks to HR and Employment law solicitor and Director of…

21 Feb 2025 • Blog, Finance

Time for a financial check-up

Iain Stevenson, Head of Dental at Wesleyan Financial Services, shares why now is a good time to take back control of your finances… Financial planning has always been a complex task in the UK, with…

20 Feb 2025 • Blog, Marketing and Design

Social media in practice made easy with Gemma Starkey aka Miss Social

In the next blog in our series about social media, Gemma Starkey, aka Miss Social, suggests ways to make the life of your practice social media officer much easier. Let’s face it, social media is…

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,…

24 Jan 2025 • Blog, Practice Management

Be informed – Building rapport with five bums on a rugby post

Regional Support Manager, Deborah Bell, shares a visual technique to help build rapport with patients. Building rapport with your patients is essential if you want to achieve a long-term relationship with them. Having rapport also…

17 Jan 2025 • Blog, Mental Health

Boost your wellbeing on not-so-Blue Monday

You may have heard that so-called ‘Blue Monday’ falls on 20th January this year. Blue Monday is supposed to be the most depressing day of the year, based on how far away from Christmas it…

10 Jan 2025 • Blog, Marketing and Design

Empowering Dental Practices to Master Video Content for Social Media

Practice Plan Social Media Executive, Jordan Gale, provides useful tips to help Dental Practices embrace video content and overcome their fears. Why Video Matters for Dental Practices Did you know that 67% of marketers say…

23 Dec 2024 • Blog, Practice Management

Don’t just offer, prescribe plan membership to your patients

Regional Support Manager, Jo Phillpot, suggests ways to ensure your patients sign up to the correct plan for them. While it’s true that having a membership plan in place offers your patients a great way…

3 Jan 2025 • Blog, NHS

Be happy – Is 2025 the year you take back control of your business?

Did you take some time over the Christmas break to think about your business aims for the next 12 months? Perhaps you’d like to make a few changes to the way you run your business.…

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…

20 Nov 2024 • Blog, Mental Health

Dealing with change in practice

Teams will change as people join and leave or situations change in the practice. Dentist and CEO of Psynergy Mental Health, Ritesh Aggarwal suggests some ways to help staff adapt to change. Change management is…

18 Nov 2024 • Blog, Finance

Get your fee increases right

As the costs of running a dental practice continue to rise, it’s important to make sure that your plan fees keep pace. Regional Support Manager (RSM), Josie Hutchings, shares some advice on how best to…

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.…