Credit due to my partner Dr Simon Hocken, who summarises below his suggested agenda for the meeting that starts every production day in a dental practice: Daily Huddle Meeting. 15-20 minutes Everyone present Lead by Clinical Manager Remind everyone of the big picture What are the financial (and other) targets for the day? Is everyone
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Just back from an exhausting weekend in London with my daughters Rachel (15) and Ellie (13). Shopping, tour of London, eating. Saturday night we enjoyed “Wicked” at the Apollo Victoria and Sunday off to see “P.S. I Love You” at the movies. That’s a girlie musical and a chick flick all in one 48 hour period. The
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If would like to see Harry Singh’s fantastic brand new practice in Hatfield, Herts click here.

A practice visit last Friday. You can view the photographs here.

The Average Daily Yield (ADY) is the amount of actual and nominal income that each dentist and hygienist brings in on a daily basis.  Depending on the type of practice you operate, this can be made up of:  1.    Number of UDA’s times UDA value; 2.    Nominal hourly value of capitation or membership scheme service;
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Its worth a quick look around their web site click here. Where you will see “me old mate” Chris Potts as dental advisor. Do you see the arrival of Sir Richard in dentistry as an opportunity? I certainly do – if Virgin is “in” there must be a good reason.

Average number of emails received per working day: before Christmas – 35 over Christmas and New Year – 15 since the 5th January – 65 What’s happening? Looking at the totality – I see that there has been a considerable increase in the number of inter-team emails at Breathe Business – after all there are
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This morning’s British Dental Journal will carry an advert from Virgin Healthcare, looking for dentists and hygienist/therapists to apply for jobs.  It is rumoured that they plan to open private dental clinics inside large medical health centres only — up to 7 dentists per site.  The patients will be those attached to the health centre
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Questions to ask yourself when you are in overwhelm. Where am I going to find more time to think, focus and plan? How will I find more people to help me (delegate and outsource) and/or more help from the people I already know? Where will I find the money to pay for the time and
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KPI’s – key performance indicators – are the magic numbers that can tell both you and an outsider exacly what’s going on in your business.My favourite KPI’s for dentistry have always been (as a percentage of total sales): Lab bills (10% for GDP’s and 14% for funky dentists) Material costs (7% for everyone) Staff costs
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