My thanks to Helen and the team at Love Your Smile in Leeds, who organised an excellent turn out at last night’s communication skills training session. Here are the bullet points of the evening: • Everyone has a personal story • Everyone wants (at some stage) a cleaner, whiter, straighter smile (CWS Smile) • That
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Just a few days now to my heroic and possibly foolhardy attempt to complete a 15th marathon (after a 6-year absence) and continue this year’s fund raising for Bridge2Aid. I’m still basking in the rosy glow of raising £25,000 in two days last week – and hugely grateful to the 11 practices who have committed
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I have a successful dental practice and am looking to increase the number of sites. I would like to open a practice in south Manchester but need a dentist to work in it as a partner. My existing practice can supply management support and the knowhow of running a practice. Anyone interested please contact me
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I am currently providing Ahmed Sadiq, a consultant ophthalmic surgeon, with Dental Business Club Digital coaching and think he has an excellent business which has good potential for joint venture parterning with a dental practice(s). Part of his business involves a pioneering treatment to manage chronic migraine by using Botox. Have a look at these
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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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