by Zac Fine | Jan 15, 2020 | Leadership, Mental health, Patient journey, Self care, Training
When we’re rude to colleagues, the evidence is overwhelming that we perform worse and this is particularly the case when we’re doing something complex in a team, like dentistry. In medicine this ubiquitous problem is being recognised as a formidable...
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 | Apr 10, 2019 | Costs
How do you pay your associates? Like everybody else, no doubt, you give them a percentage of the gross they generate. But how come you don’t charge them a percentage of the material costs? One of my clients came up with this idea recently. Her associates do a lot of...
by Guest | Aug 23, 2017 | Performance reporting, Wealth management
Have you ever wondered how you’d cope if the lights went out during surgery? It never happens, apart from those rare times that it does. It did, dramatically, to our client Sean Corry last week at Corry Dental Care in Magherafelt, Ulster. He was left in the dark...
by Guest | Aug 9, 2017 | Performance reporting, Wealth management
If you run a dental practice, or any other business, you will have heard of EBITDA: earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation. It’s got resonance among practice owners at the moment as a useful metric to see how your business is doing. So how...