It’s not that long ago that it would have been unusual for a dental practice team to even have staff appraisals. Nowadays, you may well be having them, especially as they can feed into meeting the CQC’s well-led Key Line of Enquiry, but do you feel they are really benefitting your team members and your… Read More
Practice Management
The support system that helps me to manage our practice
Deborah Bell talks to Lisa Guthrie about her move from dental nurse to practice manager and how extra support helped her… The journey from dental nurse to practice manager is the road well-travelled. It’s the route which many practice managers take and, indeed, it was the one I took while working in practice. Taking on… 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
Getting down to business with Emma Wilks
Emma Wilks is a Business Development Consultant at DPAS and has over six years’ experience in dentistry, mainly supporting dental teams to become more efficient and grow their income. She is particularly passionate about building strong relationships with her customers and helping them find solutions to challenges. In this blog, Emma discusses the need to… 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
