Monthly management meeting yesterday – held, as often is the case, at the beautiful home of our Finance Director Mike Hutchinson in Flushing, looking across Penryn River towards Falmouth harbour. Mike’s catering is legendary and the first hour of our meeting occurs in the kitchen, where we all enjoy frothy coffees and catch up with personal
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/02/17/ccdentists117.xml  Have a good weekend.
That’s right – doomed. Doomed to exctinction. Why? Dental corporates overwhelming the NHS market and competing for UDA’s on terms that cannot be matched; Virgin Healthcare hoovering up your best team members and offering families “points making prizes” on affordable private care; The GDC introducing a raft of new regulation and legislation to constrict and
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I’m beginning to see the emergence of three distinct business models in private and independent UK dentistry: the traditional PRIVATE PRACTICE – where a dentist combines with other dentists and therapists/hygienists to provide general or specialised dentistry; the PRIVATE MINI-DENTAL HOSPITAL – where the principal has created a team of specialists and generalists and the
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Working with the Birmingham Breathe Business Club this week. We facilitated an “imagineering” session yesterday afternoon, asking the delegates to choose a date for the “finish line” of this phase of their professional lives – and then to sketch in what their business will look like at the line. Responses ranged from “sell for £4m
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Friday – working at Ashley Latter’s Head Office with Ash and Simon Tucker from Medenta. All three of us were invited by the Dental Laboratories Association to present a full-day on “Working smarter not harder”. I was up there first, with a 90-minute session on marketing, including a review of where the UK market for
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Well I think it is anyway. The news that Merrill Lynch have purchased 51% of Integrated Dental Holdings for £300 million may have raised the eyebrows of many in dentistry – but a bigger impact will be the effect on the City. Although the pundits are predicting recession, your pension fund managers are awash with
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A great day on Tuesday in Magherafelt, Northern Ireland with Robert Wallace and his team. You can see practice photographs here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=30331&l=d69bb&id=770882237 Robert is a quiet leader – very unassuming but determined – and he has attracted a wonderful team of ladies. They moved to new premises just a year ago – its a lovely
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Goodness – you would think I had a fan club or something. It’s quite flattering actually – the emails from the well-intentioned asking if I am “OK” because there has been a scarcity of blog posts and ezines in the first few weeks of 2008 because: changing our ezine design and distribution has created some
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