Blog

Dental Health Dental Landscape Marketing and Design Mental Health NHS Covid-19 Events Practice Management Finance Dentistry Confidence Monitor Our News Switch

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…

22 Aug 2024 • Blog, Marketing and Design

Make your marketing work for ‘Margaret’

Are we getting marketing wrong? In this guest blog, Content Marketer and Creative Director of Big Bee Content, Niki May Blane, explains why a bigger audience isn’t always better when it comes to digital marketing.…

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…