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Bodcast - delivers you expert advice on how to make your dental practice a more profitable and sustainable business. Featuring interviews with key industry figures, hints and tips on a variety of subjects from wellbeing in dentistry to analysis of the dental landscape, along with real-life experiences of dental teams, there’s plenty to intrigue, inform and entertain.
Episodes

Friday Jan 31, 2025
Group and Corporate practice ownership with Nigel Jones and Paul Graham
Friday Jan 31, 2025
Friday Jan 31, 2025
In the second episode of our brand-new series, “In the Loupe”, Nigel Jones, Director at Practice Plan Group sits down with Paul Graham, Managing Director of Medical team at Christie & Co, to discuss the current state of the dental practice sales market.
What you’ll hear:
- Trends over the last few years
- Growth in smaller corporate groups
- Focus on quality of sites rather than quantity
- The impact of the National Insurance hike for employers
- Rising costs and other challenges
- Valuations of practices with NHS contracts.

Tuesday Jan 28, 2025
How to best use Instagram for your dental practice with Gemma Starkey
Tuesday Jan 28, 2025
Tuesday Jan 28, 2025
Hazel Dockery catches up with Gemma Starkey, otherwise known as Miss Social, to talk about Instagram and how to best use the social media platform.
What you’ll hear:
- Introduction to Gemma
- Benefits of Instagram and its demographics
- Follow local accounts and attractions
- Potential pitfalls
- Different types of content
- Benefits of having an annual content calendar.
To find out more visit https://www.misssocial.co.uk/

Wednesday Jan 22, 2025
Psychological safety and high performance teams with Fiona Ellwood BEM
Wednesday Jan 22, 2025
Wednesday Jan 22, 2025
Hazel Dockery from Practice Plan catches up with Fiona Elwood, Executive Director at the Society of British Dental Nurses, to discuss feeling safe at work and ways to improve psychological safety in practice.
What you’ll hear:
- Overview of Fiona’s career
- Definition of psychological safety and the benefits
- How to implement in practice
- Having a psychological safety champion
- Consequences of low psychological safety
- Impact on the business and the team
- Active listening.

Wednesday Jan 08, 2025
Life outside the NHS with Jane Mead
Wednesday Jan 08, 2025
Wednesday Jan 08, 2025
Donna Hall, Regional Support Manager at Practice plan is joined by Jane Mead, Finance Director at Elegant Smiles, to discuss their journey of multiple NHS conversions and the benefits of moving their group of practices to one plan provider.
What you’ll hear:
- Elegant Smiles' conversion journey
- Transitioning four practices from NHS to private
- The benefits for the business, team and patients
- Life in practice now.

Tuesday Dec 31, 2024
Tuesday Dec 31, 2024
Introducing our brand-new series, “In the Loupe.” In this first episode, Nigel Jones, Director at Practice Plan Group sits down with Eddie Crouch, Chair of the BDA, to explore predictions for the future of dentistry in 2025.
What you’ll hear:
- Key milestones for 2025
- Workforce problems
- NHS dentistry tie-in for graduates.

Thursday Dec 19, 2024
The big switch off 2025 with John Greenshaw
Thursday Dec 19, 2024
Thursday Dec 19, 2024
Hazel Dockery from Practice Plan is joined by John Greenshaw, Owner and Director of Merlin Telecommunications Ltd, to discuss the upcoming changes to UK telecoms systems, how it will impact dental practices and action to take.
What you’ll hear:
- What is the big switch off?
- Action to take now
- New opportunities for practices
- The benefits of the new systems.

Wednesday Dec 11, 2024
Five bums on a rugby post - An effective questioning technique with Deborah Bell
Wednesday Dec 11, 2024
Wednesday Dec 11, 2024
In this latest Bodcast, Deborah Bell, Regional Support Manager at Practice Plan, shares an effective questioning technique that many of her practices have found beneficial when communicating and building rapport with patients.
What you’ll hear:
- Importance of asking open questions
- Different uses in practice
- Building rapport with patients
- Patient testimonials.

Friday Dec 06, 2024
How to be more creative with Les Jones
Friday Dec 06, 2024
Friday Dec 06, 2024
Les Jones, Creative Director at Practice Plan shares his top tips for boosting creativity at home and in the workplace.
What you’ll hear:
- What is creativity?
- Stimulate ideas by challenging and alternatives
- Quantity vs quality
- Setting stretch goals
- Creativity in practice
- Having creative hobbies
- Benefits of journalling.

Monday Nov 25, 2024
Partial Retirement vs Retire & Return, with Wesleyan Financial Services
Monday Nov 25, 2024
Monday Nov 25, 2024
Wesleyan Financial Services Specialist Financial Adviser Karen Watson-Brown talks to Monica Pacult about retirement planning for dentists, in particular looking at the option of partial retirement versus retiring, then returning to work and how both options will impact pensions.
For more information go to https://www.wesleyan.co.uk.
This podcast is for information purposes only and does not constitute financial advice.
Tax treatment depends on individual circumstances and may be subject to change in the future.
Wesleyan Financial Services Ltd (Registered in England and Wales No. 1651212) is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
Registered Office: Colmore Circus, Birmingham B4 6AR. Telephone: 0345 351 2352. Calls may be recorded to help us provide, monitor and improve our services to you.

Thursday Nov 14, 2024
Navigating Career Paths for Dental Nurses with Hannah Whitworth
Thursday Nov 14, 2024
Thursday Nov 14, 2024
In this latest episode of Bodcast, host Laura Hills from Practice Plan is joined by Hannah Whitworth, Dental Nurse Development Manager, to talk about the diverse career paths available for dental nurses and how to unlock a world of possibilities in the dental industry.
What you’ll hear:
- Hannah’s own journey in dentistry
- The challenges dental nurses face, particularly the lack of progression opportunities
- Stepping out of your comfort zone
- Obtaining qualifications and registering with the General Dental Council
- Networking and building supportive professional relationships.