by Zac Fine | Jun 11, 2019 | Business growth, Costs, Direct access, Leadership, Pricing, Recruitment
When the GDC gave direct access the green light in 2013 it created an incredible opportunity for significantly bigger margins in dental businesses. Anyone prepared to delegate their associates’ work to therapists could drastically cut costs, but for whatever...
by Jonathan Fine | May 2, 2019 | Business growth, Communications, Facial aesthetics
The UK facial aesthetics industry is now thought to be worth £2.75bn. It’s been six years since the Keogh Report, a review on cosmetic treatments by NHS medical director Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, but despite his recommendation that fillers be made prescription,...
by Jonathan Fine | Apr 3, 2019 | Business growth, Planning, Wealth management
In March I co-ran a course for Fine Company clients with my son Dan and it was, to put it mildly, a moving experience. Not just for me but for the delegates and Dan too. We were collaborating in such a way that it was very powerful. Dan, a consultant at Hive Business,...
by Jonathan Fine | Jan 2, 2019 | Business growth, Treatment modalities
Last week’s Sunday Times picked up on a report by the Royal College of Surgeons about a potential gamechanger in the dental patient journey: piezo electric drills. They’re “less painful, more precise, more effective and much quieter” and are already being used by a...
by Jonathan Fine | Dec 12, 2018 | Business growth, Treatment modalities
There are 11m people living with hearing loss in the UK and that’s going to rise to 15.6m by 2035. I bet you can guess what I’m going to say next. Two words: growth market. And seven more: that dental practices are primed to service. Why is this a growth market? On...
by Jonathan Fine | Dec 12, 2018 | Business growth, Ireland, Treatment modalities
The HSE estimates that 17% of the population has some sort of hearing loss, which equates to more than 800,000 people. But that number is going to rise dramatically because of two phenomena: Ireland’s population has been getting steadily older since the 1980s. In the...
