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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.
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Friday Dec 29, 2023
Reflecting on your business goals for 2024
Friday Dec 29, 2023
Friday Dec 29, 2023
Katrina James, Area Manager at Practice Plan, shares her top tips for your business and things to think about for 2024.
What you’ll hear:
- Reflect on the past year
- Evaluate what’s gone well/what’s been a challenge
- What are your business goals?
- Prioritise your team.
Who should listen:
- Practice Owners
- Practice Managers.
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
The benefits of being a vulnerable boss
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Hazel Dockery at Practice Plan catches up with Mark Topley, CSR and Business coach, to talk about vulnerability in the workplace and the benefits of creating an open culture.
What you’ll hear:
- What is vulnerability?
- The importance of creating a safe space and an open culture
- Communication
- Not being afraid to make mistakes or ask for help.
To find out more visit https://marktopley.co.uk/
Monday Dec 11, 2023
UK Dental Market Review 2023
Monday Dec 11, 2023
Monday Dec 11, 2023
Nigel Jones, Sales and Marketing Director at Practice Plan Group is joined by Steve O’Connor, Associate Director at Christie & Co, to discuss the key findings from their dental market report 2023.
What you’ll hear:
- General overview of 2023
- Interest rates and cost of living crisis effects
- Groups and corporates
- Rising costs for NHS practices vs private
- Workforce issues and growth in private practice.
Who should listen:
- Practice Owners
- Dentists
- Practice Managers.
Tuesday Dec 05, 2023
Pension switching and consolidation for dentists
Tuesday Dec 05, 2023
Tuesday Dec 05, 2023
Listen in to our latest podcast with Simon Cosgrove, Dental Specialist Financial Adviser at Wesleyan Financial Services, where we talk about the pros and cons of pension switching and consolidation for dentists.
Bear in mind that the value of investments can go down as well as up and you may get back less than you invest. This podcast is for information only and isn’t financial or legal advice.
Please note: Specialist Financial Advisers referred to throughout the podcast are part of Wesleyan Financial Services
You can find out more about Wesleyan at www.wesleyan.co.uk
Practice Plan Limited is an introducer appointed representative of Wesleyan Financial Services Limited. Practice Plan Limited (Registered in England and Wales No. 03089948). Registered office: Cambrian Works, Gobowen Road, Oswestry, Shropshire, SY11 1HS Telephone number: 01691 684120. Website: www.practiceplan.co.uk.
‘WESLEYAN’ is a trading name of the Wesleyan Group of companies. 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.
Monday Dec 04, 2023
How to be more resilient and less stressed in dentistry
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Hussein Hassanali, Associate Dentist at Woodthorpe Dental Centre is joined by Jo Clarke, Founder and Director of Petros to talk about resilience, being less stressed and getting in the zone for dentistry.
What you’ll hear:
- What cortisol is and how it can affect people
- What resilience is and how naturally it comes to some of us
- How to be more resilient
- What rumination is
- Benefits of running commentary with patients
- Importance of detachment and letting go
- Not taking things personally.
For more information on Petros resilience training visit https://petros.org.uk/
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Overcoming the barriers to converting from NHS to private practice
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Michelle Hardy, Sales Support Manager at Practice Plan answers some of the common questions and barriers to converting from NHS to private practice.
What you’ll hear:
Barriers including
- Losing patients
- Reaction from local press
- Will team resist change?
- What will happen to NHS pension?
- Local health board response
- Feeling guilty about leaving NHS
- "Am I good enough to be a private dentist?"
Who should listen:
- Practice owners
- Practice managers
- Dentists
Thursday Nov 09, 2023
How to pay associates for plan membership income
Thursday Nov 09, 2023
Thursday Nov 09, 2023
Next up in our ask the experts series we catch up with Sarah Barnard, Regional Support Manager at Practice Plan, who shares different ways for paying your associate dentists with plan membership income.
What you'll hear:
- Importance of finding the right method for your business
- Different calculation methods
- Pros and cons of each one
- Calculator and guides available
Who should listen:
- Practice principals
Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
DenGro: Dental Software for Dentists
Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
Neil Stephen, CEO of DenGro joins us in this latest podcast to talk about the CRM system specifically designed for dental practices, some of the benefits of using it and how good conversations can lead to conversions.
What you'll hear:
- When and why was DenGro started?
- How does the system work?
- How does this process lead to a good conversation?
- What are some of the benefits for a practice?
Who should listen:
- Practice Managers
- Practice Owners
To find our more visit https://dengro.com/
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Dental Mentoring Network
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Michelle Hardy, Sales Support Manager at Practice Plan catches up with Fiona Ellwood BEM, Founder of Dental Mentoring Network to discuss the benefits of mentoring and how to get started.
What you'll hear:
- How Fiona first discovered mentoring
- What does mentoring mean?
- Where's the best place to start
- Stand out stories
Who should listen:
- All dental professionals
Friday Oct 06, 2023
Should you utilise your team or outsource your marketing?
Friday Oct 06, 2023
Friday Oct 06, 2023
Les Jones, Creative Director at Practice Plan catches up with Hayley Irons, Director at HI Marketing Ltd to discuss the differences and benefits of utilising your dental team to manage your marketing or wether its more efficient to outsource to a marketing agency.
What you'll hear:
- How do you decide whether to use a team member or outsource
- If you use a team member, is it realistic for them to do it as part of their role, along with other duties, or should it be a standalone role?
- If you decide to outsource, how do you go about choosing the right agency/company
- What sort of return should you expect from your investment
Who should listen:
- Practice owners
- Practice managers