If you’re looking to go into 2026 feeling organised, confident and inspection-ready, the January Compliance Reset Planner is the solution.
January is often one of the busiest, most pressured periods in practice life. The team returns from leave, diaries start to fill again, evidence needs updating, and the compliance ‘to-do’ list can feel like it grew while everyone was away.
Through our conversations with hundreds of practice managers and principals, one message comes up again and again: ‘I just want a calm, clear, structured way to start the year – without drowning in tasks.’
That’s exactly why our advisory team, led by Pat Langley, created the January Compliance Reset Planner. It’s a simple, supportive 31-day framework designed to help practices start 2026 feeling organised, confident and inspection-ready.
No overwhelm or long lists. Just one achievable action each day.
Why January matters so much for compliance
January sets the tone for the entire year.
When your logs, evidence and systems start on track, everything feels more manageable.
But when the month begins with backlog and uncertainty, it becomes harder to gain momentum.
This planner is built to help practices:
- Reduce January stress
- Strengthen core evidence early
- Set clear expectations with the team
- Avoid mid-year gaps
- Feel ahead rather than constantly catching up.
Each action is small, but the cumulative impact is huge.
What’s inside the 31-day planner?
The planner covers every core compliance area, organised into gentle, daily steps:
Week 1: reset and refresh
A calm, structured start to the year – dashboard tidy, policy review, roles check, audit planning and emergency medicines review.
Week 2: clinical and decontamination essentials
Sharps review, clinical waste audit, emergency drill planning, and surgery deep clean.
Week 3: safety and water systems
Fire safety, legionella logs, radiography evidence, and first-aid kit checks.
Week 4: people, information and visibility
Safeguarding checks, induction reviews, complaints patterns, patient information and website accuracy.
Week 5: finish strong
Team appreciation, evidence organisation, servicing schedules and a final ‘January tick-off’ to close the month with confidence.
Every single step is lightweight, achievable and mapped to real inspection expectations.
Created by compliance specialists who understand practice life
For more than 15 years, Dentistry Compliance, led by Pat Langley, has supported practices with every aspect of compliance, from audits and evidence to training, team files and due diligence.
The January Compliance Reset Planner brings this expertise together into a simple, supportive, ready-to-use framework.
It’s shaped by:
- Real advisory calls
- Real practice challenges
- Real inspection patterns
- The real needs of practice managers.
It’s built to feel like having a compliance specialist in your corner every day of the month.
How the Dentistry Compliance platform fits in
If you already use Dentistry Compliance, the planner becomes even easier – most daily actions link directly to tasks, logs, audits and evidence areas in your dashboard.
If you’re new to the platform, the planner is a great way to experience how simple and structured compliance can feel when everything lives in one smart, intuitive system.
Dentistry Compliance brings together:
- Clear task lists
- Evidence logs
- Auto-reminders
- Audits
- Onboarding tools
- Team file management
- CQC-aligned frameworks
- Live support from our advisory team.
It’s practical, organised and built to reduce admin pressure on already stretched teams.
A more confident year starts with one small step
Whether you’ve started the planner from day one, or you’re picking it up mid-January (or mid-year), the goal is the same: to help you feel supported, organised and inspection-ready – one small action at a time.
You can download the full planner now. It’s completely free and yours to use whenever you need a reset.
Enter your details to download here.
A calmer 2026 begins today.
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