Can I firstly express my gratitude to my client, best friend and fellow Unity Partnership member, Tim Thackrah at Elmsleigh House. We are in the middle of a quarterly coaching day and Tim is allowing me to keep an eye on the progress of our challenge. Right now – 15:15, we have 6 confirmed new
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Here is a flyer for a good course on business planning and financial management presented by Andy McDougall from Spot On Business Planning as part of the BDA training essentials programme Effective business planning is increasingly important for practices wishing to compete in the current dental market, and with the stepping up scrutiny by HM
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Customer relationship/marketing manager/PA to MD required for private dental laboratory in North London, a friendly, team-orientated working environment. Scope of role: Managing MDs diary and day-to-day affairs Organising events and meetings for generation of new business Supporting sales process within the pipeline of new business Managing customer relationships Implementing marketing strategies and projects Salary: £25-30,000
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A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join our busy, well-established NHS practice in Port Talbot. The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic, motivated and committed to post graduate development. We are offering a fully computerised, two surgery practice with a full support team and clinical freedom within quality assured guidelines. If you like what you have
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After my most recent teleconference I received this email from Mubbasher Khanzada from Welltime, following up from what was discussed in the call about how to best capture the patient experience through feedback mechanisms. This is what he said: I am interested in finding out what practices do to capture patients’ feedback, more specifically:
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I was recently sent this by a client as a bad example of a recall letter. Do any of you out there have a better template that we can use? What would you say are the ‘essentials’ to include in a recall letter so that it ‘does what it says on the tin’? thanks! CB
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Default Retirement Age This is being removed on 6th April 2011 ABOLISHMENT OF DEFAULT RETIREMENT AGE From the 6th April 2011, employers are no longer able to retire employees out of the business once they reach 65 years old. What this means in reality is that after the 6th April 2011, Employers will have to
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There is no such thing any more. “Private dentistry” is reputedly delivered by: corporates supermarkets retailers so, if you are going to positively differentiate yourself in the market you MUST describe yourself as an “Independent dental practice” or “an independent dentist” which means you are free to evolve and deliver your own brand of customer
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I recently wrote an article entitled ‘Deconstructing Brands’ for Private Dentistry – here is a link to it. PD Jan Barrow by on Scribd