Sebastian Evans

The General Dental Council’s (GDC) consultation on the annual retention fee (ARF) level closed on 4 September. The GDC has said it is very pleased with the number of responses received and the interest shown by registrants and stakeholders. In total 4,474 responses were received: Dentists – 3813 Dental care professionals – 381 Student dental professionals…

My journey as an overseas trainer began in 1995, when I decided to leave the NHS. Back then, I thought private dentistry meant ‘cosmetic dentistry’, so I started to learn what I could from the best trainers. I found myself drawn to American leaders in cosmetic dentistry, including Dr Larry Rosenthal. I went to an…

Ministers said they did not normally comment on proposals made by the likes of the GDC, which it acknowledged is an ‘independent body’. But they pointed out that the Government had set out its position on professional registration fees as far back as a document put out in February 2011. This stated: ‘The department would…

Les Jones will be touring the UK in September, delivering a number of one-day marketing masterclasses entitled How to market your dental practice, focusing solely on what dental practices could be doing to enhance their marketing activities to ultimately increase their practice profits. Les’ workshop will dust off your marketing cobwebs, taking you through the…

The use of direct mail has been out of fashion among forward-thinking businesses in recent years. With the advent of social media, video sharing websites and other technology, the idea of just sending promotional material to potential customers seems somehow too simple. Why would you opt to print and post a leaflet or flyer, when…

The report, by the Welsh Oral Health Information Unit, which is based at Cardiff University and Public Health Wales, shows that since 2004-05, the proportion of children who have no tooth decay has risen from 54.9% to 64.0% in 2012-13. In 2013 in a class of 30 children, on average about 19 will have no…

For most people the only contact they have with the protection market is when they buy their first home with a 25-year mortgage, they take out a 25-year life insurance policy to match it. What is the real reason for this cover though? Most do not think about this. Take myself as an example, as…

The short answer is – no. There has been some discussion of late about London in particular. Experts consider our capital city has well and truly bounced back but the rest of the country is still working towards making up its losses (Chakrabortty, 2014). This means there’s plenty of opportunity to make good purchasing deals…

The GDC has justified the unprecedented scale of the increase in the annual retention fee (ARF) primarily on the basis of the increase in the number of ‘complaints’ that it has to deal with. In calculating its likely operating costs, the GDC has also predicted that this volume of incoming ‘complaints’ will continue to rise…

In fact, employees view them as the most important benefit in demonstrating their employer’s support for their wellbeing (according to two Denplan surveys). Colin Perry, corporate channel manager at Denplan, explains: ‘Clearly we’re pleased that healthcare and wellbeing is still a priority among both employees and company decision makers. ‘And with schemes such as the…

On holiday earlier this year, I met a couple from outside Glasgow who asked what I thought the outcome of their independence referendum would be. Back in June my reply was that the ‘No’ side seemed so far ahead that it was likely they would win. ‘You might be surprised’, said the wife, ‘a lot…

Change is indeed a scary prospect, so to help dental practices weather the storm and face change head-on, this year’s Practice Plan Workshop Tour presented by Business of Dentistry events brings you Survive and Thrive, a powerful masterclass to help you and your team do just that. Delivered by international keynote speaker, motivational trainer and…

Over the course of the month of August, aided by Dental Elite, a group of six individual dental practice owners in the north east successfully completed on the sale of their seven dental practices to a small corporate from the south of England. The grouping of the practices together allowed the group to secure a…