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For 25 years, Practice Plan regional support manager (RSM), Josie Hutchings, has been supporting practices to make the move from NHS to private dentistry. More than most people, she’s aware of the magnitude of this change and what’s involved. Here she offers an insight into the types of changes practices ‘going private’ can expect. Moving…
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Practice Plan regional support manager Josie Hutchings spoke to Amit Jilka, a dentist and owner of five sites across Staffordshire, to garner his views on how contract changes might affect his business. As the dental sector in England anticipates changes to the NHS dental contract, many practice owners are weighing what the changes will mean…
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Guilt is a normal response to leaving NHS dentistry behind – Josie Hutchings offers some advice for dentists wrestling with their consciences. With dental services taking up just over a page in the government’s recently published 10-year plan for the NHS, its future may not be bright. It’s understandable that dentists may want to move…
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Practice Plan regional support manager Josie Hutchings outlines the benefits of introducing private dentistry into a practice. Times in dentistry are hard, especially in NHS dentistry. Over the past few years practices have had to contend with the consequences of a total shutdown because of the pandemic, a backlog of patients clamouring for appointments as…
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Josie Hutchings explains how converting to private dentistry can help more than just your working life. On average we spend over 84,000 hours of our life at work. So the better job satisfaction and more enjoyment we have during the hours, the happier we’ll be. Yet sometimes that is easier said than done. We can…
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Josie Hutchings explains how the team at Practice Plan is there for you every step of the way when you decide to make the move from NHS to private dentistry. It is a fact that many dentists are currently feeling disillusioned. As a result they are stressed with the restrictions that come working under the NHS.…
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Josie Hutchings talks to practice manager Kate Cummings about the benefits a well-populated plan brings to their business and their patients. Financial stability for your business and being able to deliver care to patients are two things that lots of dental teams will have worried about over the past year. However, many practices with a…
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Josie Hutchings speaks to Jason Greenwood about making changes to his practice and the positive effect they had Change is said to be inevitable, but it is also often hard to embrace or even accept. This can be particularly true when it comes to running your business and where any change can feel like it…
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Josie Hutchings shares the story of a squat practice’s difficult start to life during a recession Opening up a squat practice is no easy task, and often the hardest part is attracting your first patients through the door. For Helen Robertson, the situation was made even trickier by opening the practice at the start of…
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It’s important for the profession to put its weight behind the door of change, Josie Hutchings. Barely a week goes by when there isn’t some discussion around the poor mental health of dentists, particularly around high levels of stress and anxiety. This could be a reflection of what is happening within wider society with recent…
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Josie Hutchings shares the stories of how two practices embraced a new approach to making effective decisions. It’s a scene that will be familiar to many: everyone gathers for a meeting to discuss a particular topic, the same usual suspects shout the loudest and after a lengthy, and often circular discussion, no firm decision is…
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Just over a decade ago, The Priors Dental Practice’s principal Mark Emms and practice manager Lindsey Edwards made the decision to extend their single-handed general NHS practice into a private practice. Josie Hutchings, regional support manager at Practice Plan, caught up with Lindsey to get the inside scoop on this remarkable transformation. Josie Hutchings (JH):…
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Josie Hutchings from Practice Plan talks patient membership plans and explains why they are the foundation of private practice. For any small business, reaching the position of being able to generate predictable, profitable and sustainable income is high on the priority list. Not only does it reduce stress and increase confidence, but it provides a…
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Dentistry catches up with Josie Hutchings, to discuss Practice Plan’s NHS change support team. If you are debating about your future within NHS dentistry and thinking about what a move to private dentistry would look like, rest assured knowing specialist and expert support and guidance is available. From helping you answer the most fundamental question…
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Josie Hutchings contemplates the progression of the new NHS contracts and the options a dental practitioner could consider in the future. Following the recent debate about the General Dental Practitioners contract in England at the General Dental Practice Committee (GDPC), the case for reform has now been termed as ‘irresistible’. However, the prototype contracts are…
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