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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…

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…

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…

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…

11 Mar 2024 • Blog, Finance

The importance of having business agreements in place

Rebecca Johnson, a specialist financial planner at Wesleyan Financial Services explains why it’s important for dentists to have business agreements in place. Business agreements are the heart and soul of most companies and organisations. They…

27 Oct 2023 • Blog, Finance

Advice on setting up a private squat dental practice

Since the backlog caused by the COVID restrictions and the subsequent access problems for many patients, squat practices have risen in popularity. How easy is it to set up a private squat and what are…

15 Jun 2023 • Blog, Finance

Is it time to explore the peninsula of infinite possibilities?

Area Manager, Gary Nelson, urges people to shun pessimism and embrace their inner optimist. “The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.” William Arthur…

12 Dec 2022 • Blog, Finance

Safeguard your finances in a time of recession

There’s no doubt now that the country is in a recession which is predicted to last longer than any other for decades. Are there any steps people can take to help alleviate some of the…

17 Oct 2022 • Blog, Finance

Rising above the hullabaloo

Area Manager, Gary Nelson, makes some suggestions of things practices can check on to ensure they’re making the best use of their money over the next few months. It’s beginning to look like another interesting…

30 Jul 2021 • Finance

Has the Covid lockdowns lifted your savings? Top tips for making your money work for you

Michael Copeland, senior area manager at Wesleyan Financial Services, explores how dentists can get the most out of their lockdown savings…. In the face of new infection control protocols and looming backlogs of patients that…

7 May 2021 • Blog, Finance

The five steps to becoming a membership-only practice

Fliss McCalmont discusses the benefits of being a membership-only practice and how to successfully move to that business model. Why become a membership-only practice? For obvious reasons, financial stability and security has taken higher priority…

5 Apr 2021 • Blog, Practice Management, Finance

Top Tips to boost your plan in practice

Sales Support Manager Michelle Hardy looks at five ways to boost your patient plan… Share your vision One way to help grow the plan is to share your vision for where you want to take…

25 Jan 2021 • Blog, Covid-19, Practice Management, Finance

Why now is the right time to raise your treatment prices

This is an important subject, so I’m going to address it via two blogs. The first of which is looking at why now is the right time to raise your treatment prices, and the second…

14 Jan 2021 • Blog, Covid-19, Finance

What’s the best way to spread my sources of net income?

After the past few turbulent months, lots of people are looking for ways to feel more secure and diminish their financial vulnerability. One of the ways you can begin to increase your stability and protect…

3 Nov 2020 • Blog, Finance

Heard about NHS pension discrimination? Here’s the plan to end it and how it may affect you

Our parent company, Wesleyan, shares the implications of the Age discrimination within the NHS pension scheme and the proposals published by the Government to remove this discrimination for members of all public sector pension schemes…

26 Oct 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Finance

Why it’s never too late to start a financial plan

Stephen Barry, Financial Advisor for Wesleyan, shares insights on the common areas that are best to focus on by more experienced dentists in order to improve financial fortunes… While its always recommended to start a…

15 Oct 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Practice Management, Finance

How your trading structure forms the keystone to your dental business

Les Jones shares insights from Paul Griffiths, Specialist Dental Financial Consultant at Wesleyan, into how the trading structures of various businesses work and important considerations for your business… While the current climate may be a…

1 Oct 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Practice Management, Finance

Your dentistry questions answered: financial forecasting

Practice Plan’s Donna Hall looks for answers to the questions you’re asking… My financial forecast isn’t where I thought it would be. How can I bridge the gap? Never has the saying ‘best laid plans’…