The Business of Dentistry Podcast

In this weeks podcast, we are joined by Jo Clarke, Founder and Director at Petros - Resilience for life, who shares some top tips for dentists and practice teams to improve your resilience and wellbeing.

What you'll hear:

• Some of the challenges that dentists face and how these may affect their wellbeing
• Practical hints and tips to improve wellbeing
• The importance of optimism 

Who should listen:

• All dental professionals

Nigel Suggett, Dentist and Practice Owner at Seaham Smiles Dental Surgery, shares his journey on moving away from NHS dentistry and converting to private practice.

What you'll hear:

• Nigels reasons for wanting to move away from working under an NHS contract
• The difference its made in practice and to the team
• Why Nigel chose Practice Plan over other providers
• Life in practice now

Who should listen:

All dental professionals

Our latest podcast series "Ask the experts" introduces you to all of our Regional Support Managers who are highly experienced and hugely knowledgable about dentistry. 

To kick the series off we are joined with Amy Hansford, Regional Support Manager at Practice Plan for over 11 years and has 6 years experience working in a dental practice. She shares her top tips for increasing your word of mouth referrals from utilising your social channels to creating referral incentives.

What you'll hear:

• Importance of providing a remarkable patient journey
• Actually asking your patients for referrals
• Create a spread word the cards
• Have a referral incentive
• Utilise social channels
• Build relationships with influencers
• and more...

Who should listen:

All dental professionals

Jenny Page, Dentist and accredited member of the British Society of Clinical and academic hypnosis shares the benefits of using clinical hypnosis in dentistry and the difference it can make to the patient journey.

What you'll hear:

• What is clinical hypnosis
• How it works
• Some of the benefits
• More info about BSCAH and the courses they offer

Who should listen:

• Dentists

For more information visit https://bscah.co.uk/

Les Jones, Creative Director at Practice Plan catches up with Chris Barrow, Dental Business Coach to discuss the current recruitment and retention problems in dentistry, how to recruit the best talent for your practice and what you should look for in a team member.

What you'll hear:

• How brexit, covid and cost of living crisis has effected dentistry
• What can practices do to retain their staff and attract new talent
• Where to look for in new recruits
• The ideal team player
• Thoughts for the future

Who should listen:

• All dental professionals

In this episode, Laura Whyte talks to Wesleyan Financial Services Specialist Financial Adviser Paul Barnfather about the 2023 Spring Budget and how the changes to Annual and Lifetime Allowances will impact those planning for retirement.

This podcast is for information purposes and should not be taken as financial advice.

Tax treatment depends on the individual circumstances of each client and may be subject to change in the future.

The Financial Conduct Authority does not regulate Inheritance Tax Planning and Trusts.

You can find out more about Wesleyan at www.wesleyan.co.uk

Emma Anastasi, Founding Director of Diamond Dental Staff talks through the importance of having a marketing and social media strategy in place at your dental practice and shares ideas for the type of content you could be posting.

What you'll hear:

• Why you should have a strategy in place
• Content ideas
• How to get started

Who should listen:

All dental professionals

To find out more visit www.diamonddentalstaff.co.uk

Hazel Dockery at Practice Plan is joined with Dave Smithson, Operations Director at Anxiety UK, a national charity to help those suffering with anxiety to shed more light on the disorder and ways to manage it.

What you'll hear:

•  What is anxiety?
• Are certain people more vulnerable to suffering from anxiety or can it affect anyone?
• Best ways to help someone who suffers with anxiety
• The Anxiety UK charity and how people can get in touch

Suitable for all listeners

To find out more about the charity visit https://www.anxietyuk.org.uk/

In this latest episode of Bodcast, we catch up with Dr Niall Neeson also known as The Calming Dentist to talk about dental anxiety, the link between mental health and going to the dentist and top tips to help patients who may be struggling.

What you'll hear:

• What is dental anxiety and the different reasons people fear going to the dentist
• How to reassure family and friends
• Tips to implement in practice to ensure a positive patient journey

Who should listen:

• All dental professionals

Sarah Buxton, Director and HR and employment solicitor at FTA Law discusses considering career breaks for your employees in practice and the policies to put in place.

What you'll hear:

• What is a career break
• Benefits of offering employees career breaks
• Having a written policy in place and what to include

Who should listen:

• Practice managers
• Practice owners