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Off to Africa for 10 days

After a hectic week of presentation and travel that has eliminated any time for keeping up with blog posts, I’m about to switch off the technology for the final time and begin our journey to Tanzania. We will be working with www.bridge2aid.org in Mwanza, helping them to create a more profitable private clinic with which [...]

Daughters

Daughters

Just back from an exhausting weekend in London with my daughters Rachel (15) and Ellie (13). Shopping, tour of London, eating. Saturday night we enjoyed ”Wicked” at the Apollo Victoria and Sunday off to see “P.S. I Love You” at the movies. That’s a girlie musical and a chick flick all in one 48 hour period. The [...]

Aesthetics

If would like to see Harry Singh’s fantastic brand new practice in Hatfield, Herts click here.

High Street Dental Practice – East Grinstead

A practice visit last Friday. You can view the photographs here.

Activity is the key

Activity is the key

  Just fascinated to count my activity yesterday. I lost count of how many emails received – it started at 5.15am with 78 in-bound but they kept coming all day.  I wrote the 88th outgoing email just before 7.00pm. I made 30 outgoing phone calls.  I dealt with numerous “to do’s”.  And along the way drove from [...]

Average Daily Yield

The Average Daily Yield (ADY) is the amount of actual and nominal income that each dentist and hygienist brings in on a daily basis.  Depending on the type of practice you operate, this can be made up of:  1.   Number of UDA’s times UDA value; 2.   Nominal hourly value of capitation or membership scheme service; [...]

Virgin Healthcare

Its worth a quick look around their web site click here. Where you will see “me old mate” Chris Potts as dental advisor. Do you see the arrival of Sir Richard in dentistry as an opportunity? I certainly do – if Virgin is “in” there must be a good reason.

Email attack!

Average number of emails received per working day: before Christmas – 35 over Christmas and New Year – 15 since the 5th January – 65 What’s happening? Looking at the totality – I see that there has been a considerable increase in the number of inter-team emails at Breathe Business – after all there are [...]

Virgin Dentistry arrives today

This morning’s British Dental Journal will carry an advert from Virgin Healthcare, looking for dentists and hygienist/therapists to apply for jobs.  It is rumoured that they plan to open private dental clinics inside large medical health centres only – up to 7 dentists per site.  The patients will be those attached to the health centre [...]

My new car

My new car

So many of you asked so: