Dental Practice Archives - Page 6 of 16

1 Sep 2021 • Podcasts, Mental Health

Mental health in dentistry

In this weeks episode of Bodcast, Fern Lloyd catches up with Dr Ritesh Aggarwal, Managing Director at Psynergy Mental health to talk about the importance of looking after your mental health and a good workplace…

28 Aug 2021 • HR & Employment Law

How to manage flexible working requests

Sarah Buxton, FTA Law Employment Solicitor, looks at flexible working requests and how best to deal with them… Sometimes a member of staff may have a change in circumstances that could revolve around, for example,…

26 Aug 2021 • Practice Management

Five ways to combat musculoskeletal problems

Osteopath Sam Leopold talks about how dentists can overcome the common issue of musculoskeletal problems… Back pain, poor posture and tension headaches are common workplace health issues suffered by dentists. As dentists, you spend…

24 Aug 2021 • Podcasts

Confidence – Where does it come from?

Katrina Rees, Area manager at Practice Plan catches up with Rebecca Mander, Executive coach and founder of GuruYou coaching to discuss confidence, where it comes from and her top tips to be more confident. What…

17 Aug 2021 • HR & Employment Law

Top tips on how to recruit and retain staff in this tough market

Tina Wixon, Practice Plan Regional Support Manager, caught up with Sarah Buxton, HR and employment law Solicitor, to discuss how practices can overcome the current difficulties in recruiting and retaining staff… TW: Hi Sarah, we’re…

16 Aug 2021 • CSR

From running practices to helping the homeless

Area manager Suki Singh has been speaking to Rachel Dilley, Practice and Business Development Manager at Town Hall Dental, about the charity foundation she helped set up and the work it is doing in the…

13 Aug 2021 • Podcasts, Practice Management

Motivating your team

In this weeks episode of Bodcast, Jonathan Drury catches up with Louise Bone, Regional Support Manager at Practice Plan to share her top tips for motivating your team. What you’ll hear: Reasons some teams…

6 Aug 2021 • Mental Health

Three top tips to improve your team’s wellbeing

Dr Mahrukh Khwaja spends her time practising as an NHS dentist as well as helping other professionals to improve their mental health and wellbeing. Practice Plan recently caught up with Mahrukh, who founded the wellbeing…

30 Jul 2021 • Podcasts, Practice Management

How to upskill and get the best out of your dental nurses

In this weeks bodcast, Jonathan Drury catches up with Lisa Bainham, Practice Manager at The Old Surgery dental practice to discuss the importance of investing and supporting your dental nurses. What you’ll hear: How Lisa…

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…

26 Jul 2021 • Practice Management

The right words at the right time

Gary Nelson, Regional Support Manager, gives advice around how to answer difficult questions from frustrated patients… I am seeing and hearing a lot of confused and frustrated patients on the NHS at the moment,…

22 Jul 2021 • Practice Management

Ways to improve communication with your team

Zoe Close explores the different ways you can improve communication in your practice… Overcoming lack of face-to-face meetings Over the last year there will have been times when you wouldn’t have been able to have…

14 Jul 2021 • Marketing and Design

Changes in the dental marketing world

Donna Hall speaks to Digimax Founder Shaz Memon about the change in dental marketing over the past year and offers from some tips for practices… Donna: What changes did you see in the way practices…

14 Jul 2021 • Podcasts, Practice Management

Systemic Resilience

Johanna Hooper, Director at Limitless Peak Performance talks about systemic resilience, what it means and the importance of it in the workplace. What you’ll hear: What is systemic resilience Resilience as an individual, team and…

8 Jul 2021 • Blog, NHS

NHS dentistry – your questions answered…

Practice Plan’s Nigel Jones and the British Dental Association’s (BDA) Eddie Crouch delved into a range of topics within the NHS dental landscape in a recent webinar. Throughout the webinar, many dentists submitted questions…

7 Jul 2021 • Covid-19

The Covid-19 Chronicles: an associate’s view #8 – Hussein Hassanali

For the last 12 months, Hussein Hassanali has been blogging about life in the dental world during the pandemic. Throughout his series of blogs, he has described the challenges of working through Covid and, in…

6 Jul 2021 • HR & Employment Law

Recruitment and listening to the sound of the river

“Listen to the sound of the river if you want to catch fish.” Now this is a phrase that has always resonated with me because of its simplicity, and I have recounted it many…

5 Jul 2021 • Covid-19

How we’ve adapted to a year of change

No two days have been the same over the last year, with dental practices having to adapt quickly to change after change. As we start to see a light at the end of the lockdown…