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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.…

29 Oct 2024 • Blog, Practice Management

Is it time to freshen up your communication? With Gary Nelson

As the seasons change, Gary Nelson urges practices to think about freshening up their marketing and patient communications. I am fortunate to go to a gym with very large glass windows, one-way glass I’m glad…

25 Oct 2024 • Blog, Dental Landscape

Preparing for Dentistry with Natalie Bradley

Starting out as a young dentist can be daunting. Here, Natalie Bradley, Consultant in Special Care Dentistry and chair of the British Dental Association’s Young Dentist Committee, offers some words of comfort and advice to…

18 Oct 2024 • Blog, Practice Management

Telecommunications changes coming down the line

An event in 2025 concerning telecommunications will have a huge impact upon how practices run their businesses. John Greenshaw, owner and Director of Merlin Telecommunications Ltd explains what the change will be and how practices…

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…

27 Sep 2024 • Blog, Practice Management

How to Manage Risk

Selina Alexander reports on a recent presentation she attended by Aubrey Craig, a Senior Dento-legal Adviser at MDDUS, on the human factors in Dentistry and how to manage risk. Are there areas of your practice…

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…

16 Sep 2024 • Blog, Events

Five reasons to visit Practice Plan at Dentistry Show London

Once again, the Practice Plan team will be at Dentistry Show London on 4th and 5th October 2024. So here are five reasons why you should come along and say hello to us at Stand…

9 Sep 2024 • Blog, Finance

Discounting fees can be bad for your wealth with Ashley Latter

In this guest blog from Ashley Latter, he urges dentists to consider the real cost to their business of discounting their fees. Talking to patients about the cost of treatments is something many dentists find…