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Being a Polish dentist over here
Polish is the second language in England (and Ireland) and the number of Poles living in the UK passed one million last year. Yet there’s been a surge in Poles leaving since the Brexit vote...
More reasons to ditch the NHS
You have to wonder if anyone in Whitehall wants the NHS to survive. Are efforts to save it a charade? It is dying either way, and good riddance, because the public should not be forced to...
Average retirement age for dentists is not 74
The average dentist currently works to age 74 according to Practice Exchange, the online job and course board. It’s an extrapolation from US figures that show average retirement age for...
Don’t do a Jamie and expand whatever
Dental business blogs — this one included — always go on about business growth being de facto a good thing. But rapid expansion without strategic planning can be counterproductive. Jamie...
Overwhelmed? 4 emergency steps to prioritise tasks, fast
Whenever I feel overwhelmed by conflicting priorities (which doesn’t happen that often) I use the technique below. I recently shared it with a client who had moved into overload and they...
Lower entry costs for high street dentistry as retail space values collapse
It’s a blood bath. The big retailers took too much space and now they can’t afford it, and it’s killing them. Toys R Us and Maplin are the latest corpses. House of Fraser, Debenhams and New...
GDPR: can you still send reminders to existing patients?
When GDPR laws come into force on May 25 you’re going to need consent from patients for each separate communication channel like SMS, telephone, email, post. One blanket consent won’t be...
5 things an associate needs to get funding
David Brewer is managing director of FTA Finance and over the past 12 months arranged 250 separate funding proposals linked to dental and associated healthcare professions. He has worked...
8 reasons to go fully private
Surprisingly, satisfaction with NHS dentistry services was as high as 57% in 2017 — pretty much the same as the year before, according to a survey conducted by British Social Attitudes....
Paying too much for rubber gloves or lab work?
Typically we use suppliers because we get into a habit, and usually existing customers are treated less well in terms of incentives, pricing and even service delivery than new customers. In...