Scottish Dental

• Growth will be back – and you can give it purpose

  Never have practice owners, clinicians, regulators and public bodies needed to look more radically at the nature of service provision Read more

  August 24, 2020 / management

• Is it time to try something new?

  

  Continuous line drawing of three employees talking about work

  The cycle of improvement depends on learning to leap and repeat the ‘S-curve’ process Read more

  August 24, 2020 / management

• Coping with change

  Take one day at a time and you’ll get there Read more

  August 24, 2020 / management

• If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans

  Preparing for this piece, I knew the direction that I wanted to take and the points I intended to make.… Read more

  June 15, 2020 / management

• Musings on furlough

  As I am sitting writing this article, it’s a bit overcast and I’m looking out of my window over some… Read more

  June 15, 2020 / management

• Managing yourselves, your teams and your patients in unprecedented times

  I feel I can speak for our entire dental profession when I say the challenges of COVID-19 have been wide-reaching… Read more

  June 11, 2020 / management

• Getting past the due diligence stage – It really doesn’t need to be that painful!

  

  The list of questions to be answered when selling a practice can run to more than 40 pages; some thoughts… Read more

  February 17, 2020 / management

• MDDUS Case Study: Charged After a Late-Night Stramash

  Remember, the GDC holds dentists to a higher standard of behaviour than is expected of the general public Day One… Read more

  February 17, 2020 / management

• Just because the door can open, doesn’t mean you have to walk through

  

  Every dentist has experienced that elated feeling of pushing at an open door. It often comes after a period where… Read more

  February 17, 2020 / management

• A Digital Decade in Dentistry

  We are continually moving forward, gaining experience from technology; even from tech that will be rightly consigned to history As… Read more

  February 17, 2020 / management

Management

• MDDUS case study: root canal treatment

  Mr X should have been advised immediately of complications during his treatment [ WORDS: AUBREY CRAIG ] Mr X attends… Read more

  October 14, 2019 / management

• The problem with recruitment

  As a profession, we need to up our game to attract a good number of potential candidates [ Words: SUSIE… Read more

  October 14, 2019 / management

• Strategy and tactics – often confused!

  

  Time spent on developing a clear strategy which management and staff can focus on delivering, would be time well spent… Read more

  October 14, 2019 / management

• Time waits for no one

  

  Working smarter not harder takes effort, willingness to let go of old ideas and desire to embrace change [ words:… Read more

  October 14, 2019 / management

• My role as treatment co-ordinator

  The job is still in its infancy but may become as common as that of practice manager words: SUSIE ANDERSON… Read more

  August 15, 2019 / management

• The perils of wilful blindness

  

  Open your eyes, practice a bit of self-honesty and self-awareness to re-energise yourself and your practising career Wilful blindness is… Read more

  August 15, 2019 / management

• Recruit, induct, develop

  Assembling an effective team is vital for both growing a practice and building a group Following on from JUNE’S article,… Read more

  August 15, 2019 / management

• There’s no “just a…” in dentistry

  

  Every visit to the dentist – no matter how minor – is important to the patient, who should fully understand… Read more

  June 17, 2019 / management

• Problem Patients come with greater risks

  

  MDDUS Case study Mr D, a young male adult patient, has a history of poor dental care. He had a… Read more

  June 17, 2019 / management

• Outsource, automate, delegate

  

  Does this sound like you? You receive texts from 6.30am from nurses telling you they are sick and can’t work… Read more

  April 11, 2019 / management