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Lloyd Price reveals the cogs needed for achieving a smooth transition to a stress free and successful tomorrow Your practice runs like a well-oiled machine; the team is efficient, your patients are happy, your strategy is working, and you go home at the end of each day content in the knowledge that tomorrow will once…
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Stuart Clark explains how to design a dental practice avoiding hidden obstacles Redesigning or relocating your dental practice is a project that can make a radical difference to your business. But the prospect of intricate planning and the stresses of budgeting, design and compliance can prove a daunting task for any dental professional –…
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Have you thought about insuring your team? Richard Lishman unlocks the crucial considerations when it comes to key person assurance One meaning of the word ‘key’ in the English language is ‘essential, fundamental or crucial’ and emphasises the importance of something. Within the dental practice, there are key professionals who have the knowledge and skills…
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Andrew Moore investigates if a new government scheme to tackle employee sickness absence will be a bitter pill for dental practices to swallow According to the Office of National Statistics, the average number of working days lost due to sickness absence in 2013 across all sectors of UK business was 4.4 days per worker. However,…
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Can your team rely on you in times of darkness? Laura Horton explains how effective leadership can act as a guiding light Some say leadership is in your bones – you either have it or you don’t. I firmly believe leadership is a skill that needs working on frequently. Skills can be taught and, therefore,…
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Alison Murray has taken over as Chair of the British Orthodontic Society with a pressing agenda. She wants to drive forward the Society’s remit to raise standards in orthodontic education, helping support the aims of the Society, which include promoting the study and practice of orthodontics, maintaining and improving professional standards and encouraging research in…
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Insuring your business with the best possible terms and cover is hugely important, yet it is all too easy to simply agree to the first set of renewal terms received and continue with the existing insurer. In doing so, dental practices could be missing out on a better value for money contract and, in any…
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Every member of the team is a cog in the operational wheel of a practice, so each individual’s skill set will determine how your team functions as a whole. The key to creating a dream team, in which everyone works in synergy, is to have the right person in the right job – but that…
