Colleagues are not always people who would choose to spend time with each other if they didn’t have to. This means that there may well be times when you have members of your team who do not necessarily get along. In smaller teams, such as you often find in dental practices, it can be even… Read More
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The danger of making assumptions
Louise Beddow looks at how to make sure you’re providing the treatments your patients really want… Assumption can be both the cause and effect of miscommunication. And in your business, this can result in lost opportunities to meet your patients’ needs and missed chances to generate more income. I’m particularly talking about assuming that patients… Read More
Survey shines spotlight on mental health of dentists
Some worrying statistics have been revealed about the mental health of dentists in a new survey of the profession. The majority of those taking part in the Dentistry Confidence Monitor survey believe their current role has negatively affected their mental health. Although, there is a big difference between those in the NHS and those in… Read More
Getting down to business with Louise Beddow
Louise Beddow is the Sales Manager at DPAS, heading up the team of Business Development Consultants. With her experience both at DPAS over the past nine years, and prior to this as a manger of UK sales teams in the industrial and commercial advertising sector, she has a wealth of skills in team-management. Here she… Read More
Make 2019 the year your practice embraces social media
Social media is no longer the new phenomenon we sometimes still think of it as – Facebook was launched in 2004. But there are still many dental practices who have yet to fully utilise the opportunities that Facebook – and other platforms such as Instagram – can bring to their businesses. A lot of practices… Read More
What the employment status means for associates and principals
Louise Beddow seeks advice and clarity on the implications of the review into associates’ employment status… There have been several indicators recently that change could be afoot for associates in terms of their self-employed status. In the courts, Uber lost an appeal against a ruling that two of its drivers were ‘workers’ rather than self-employed,… Read More
