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16 Aug 2024 • Blog, Practice Management

Joanna Carew – discovering her passion for dentistry

Dental practice owner, Joanna Carew, shares how a career pivot led to her falling in love with dentistry. Originally, my career had nothing to do with dentistry as I was training to be a lawyer.…

13 Aug 2024 • Blog, Mental Health

Take the time to make your practice more inclusive

Natalie Bradley, Special Care Dentist and Clinical Director of Dentaid the Dental Charity, suggests ways to make your dental practice more inclusive. Everyone has a role to make sure we’re being inclusive for the patients…

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…

22 Jul 2024 • Blog, Dental Health

Bridge2Aid – making a difference to oral health in Tanzania with Shaenna Loughnane

In 2024 dental charity, Bridge2Aid, is celebrating 20 years since their first Dental Volunteer Programme in Tanzania. Chief Executive, Shaenna Loughnane, explains how its strategy for delivering aid has changed recently. One of the key…

5 Jul 2024 • Blog, Marketing and Design

Reasons to #BePracticePlan

If you cast your mind back to the meetings you had with your careers officer at school. What was the first question that usually set the conversation going? More than likely, it was ‘What do…

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…

21 Jun 2024 • Blog, Practice Management

Mike Hesketh – helping businesses grow

Head of Sales, Zoe Close, catches up with leading Dental Business Consultant, Mike Hesketh, to find out how he helps businesses flourish. Zoe: When I meet clients, they often ask where they should go for…

14 Jun 2024 • Blog, Mental Health

Gary Nelson muses on Imposter Syndrome in dentistry

Two miners’ strikes, power cuts, the UK’s first female Prime Minister, oh yes, and The Bee Gees were all over the pop charts. And in 1978, psychologists Dr Pauline Clance and Dr Suzanne Imes first…

10 Jun 2024 • Blog, CSR

Help your practice to go green with Mark Topley

Dental Business and Sustainability Coach, Mark Topley, talks about a new programme he has launched called Go Practice Green, to help practices become more sustainable. We’re all becoming increasingly aware that it’s important to be…

23 May 2024 • Blog, NHS

Diary of a conversion with Sam Labib of Hanham Dental

Regional Support Manager, Tracy Webb, catches up with recently converted dentist, Sam Labib. When Sam bought Hanham Dental Practice in 2018 it was a paper only, fully NHS practice. Between 2018 and the beginning of…

20 May 2024 • Blog, Practice Management

Six Key Focuses to Becoming a Great Boss

In this guest blog, Dental Business Coach, Mark Topley, shares the top six priorities for great leadership. In what is an increasingly dynamic business landscape this year, effective leadership is going to be more crucial…

16 May 2024 • Blog, Practice Management

Improve your patient experience and get more of what you want from your practice

Dentist and Dental Business Coach, Dr Barry Oulton, shares how to increase the turnover of a practice without working longer hours. As a dental business coach, when I chat to dentists they tend to want…

3 May 2024 • Blog, Mental Health

Moving more for Mental Health Awareness Week with Sarah Barnard

To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, Practice Plan Regional Sales Manager, Sarah Barnard, talks about the benefit of exercise and suggests ways to incorporate it into your daily life. The theme of this year’s Mental…

26 Apr 2024 • Blog, Events

Five great reasons to visit Practice Plan at this year’s Dentistry Show Birmingham

If you’re planning to visit this year’s British Dental Conference & Dentistry Show at the NEC in Birmingham on 17th and 18th May, we can give you five great reasons why what Practice Plan has…

19 Apr 2024 • Blog, HR & Employment Law

Changes to employment law this year

This year there will be a number of changes to employment law that practices should be aware of. Here, Director & HR Solicitor at Buxton Coates Solicitors, Sarah Buxton, outlines what’s coming up. As of…

18 Apr 2024 • Blog, Practice Management

Mixing things up in practice

Dentist and owner of Abbey House Dental, Amit Jilka, explains how he makes things work in a mixed practice. I began my career as a predominantly NHS dentist. Then I trained in implants and sedation…

28 Mar 2024 • Blog, Dental Landscape

Does the Dental Recovery Plan stand up to scrutiny?

Practice Plan Sales and Marketing Director, Nigel Jones, talks to dentist and BDA Principal executive committee member, Lauren Harrhy, about the government’s’ Dental Recovery Plan. Nigel: I know that you practise in Wales, Lauren, so…

22 Mar 2024 • Blog, Practice Management

How a Treatment Co-ordinator can benefit a practice

Regional Support Manager, Chris Nicholson, outlines how introducing a Treatment Co-ordinator (TCO) can help increase treatment uptake and benefit the practice. Treatment Co-ordinators have been around for a while now and more practices are seeing…