Louise Bone offers her advice on how to effectively implement a dental membership plan… There are many benefits of introducing a dental membership plan into your practice. To name just a few: increased patient loyalty, a regular and reliable income and a higher uptake in treatment plans. Everyone can introduce a plan into their practice,… Read More
How can you show the CQC you are well-led?
Louise Bone speaks to Edd Jones about how practices can meet the well-led Key Line of Enquiry in a CQC inspection… When it comes to being inspected by the CQC, it is often the well-led Key Line of Enquiry (KLOE) that many practices can find difficult to demonstrate. This could be because of a feeling… Read More
Getting down to business with Louise Bone
Louise Bone has more than 17 years’ experience in dentistry including in NHS and private practices, hospital and training settings. Particularly passionate about compliance, delivering training, team motivation and the patient journey, Louise has been a Business Development Consultant at DPAS for the last six of those years. Below she talks about her experience working… Read More
Make finding your next team member easier with new workforce data
Louise Beddow looks at how a report into the dental workforce can help practice owners improve their recruitment success… Knowing the current make-up of the dental workforce and what it will look like in the future can help to make your recruitment process smoother and quicker. Fortunately, a report providing just that insight has recently… Read More
Why a plan works for our practice…
Louise Bone discusses with Colin Gardner how DPAS’s membership plan has helped to manage issues such as a recession and increased regulation… As with all small businesses, dental practices are subject to external factors, such as market forces and legislation, that are beyond their control. While that may be the case, with the support of… Read More
What kind of training should you be investing in?
There’s an often-quoted story where a CEO asks, ‘What if we train our staff and they leave?’, and the CFO replies, ‘What if we don’t and they stay?’… It’s a scenario that many people involved with running a business may feel familiar with. Training is an investment of time and money, and it can run… Read More
