http://www.bkh.co.uk/blog/2009/11/11/hygienisttherapist-remuneration/ BKH Barrow Kwong Hing | Chris Barrow & Al Kwong Hing in UK Dentistry | Dental Practice Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:25:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.bkh.co.uk/blog/2009/11/11/hygienisttherapist-remuneration/#comment-16171 John Lewis Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:05:53 +0000 http://www.coachbarrow.com/blog/?p=2161#comment-16171 I would strongly urge you to consider using both a hygienist and a therapist. The right person in both posts can free up your time, increase profitability and enable you to keep all your patients. I have a part time therapist ( Salaried) who carries out all childrens treatment for our child only NHS contract, does my simple fills to free up my time and offer patients earlier appointments, organises our in house clinical governance and does marketing visits to local schools and nurseries. My full time hygienist has a full book, but also carries out all our tooth whitening ( under prescription) on our whitening wednesdays. As she is on a lower hourly rate this has enabled us to offer a much reduced price which maintains profitability but is drawing large numbers in. regards John Lewis I would strongly urge you to consider using both a hygienist and a therapist. The right person in both posts can free up your time, increase profitability and enable you to keep all your patients. I have a part time therapist ( Salaried) who carries out all childrens treatment for our child only NHS contract, does my simple fills to free up my time and offer patients earlier appointments, organises our in house clinical governance and does marketing visits to local schools and nurseries. My full time hygienist has a full book, but also carries out all our tooth whitening ( under prescription) on our whitening wednesdays. As she is on a lower hourly rate this has enabled us to offer a much reduced price which maintains profitability but is drawing large numbers in.
regards
John Lewis

]]> http://www.bkh.co.uk/blog/2009/11/11/hygienisttherapist-remuneration/#comment-16166 Bill Wallace Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:58:20 +0000 http://www.coachbarrow.com/blog/?p=2161#comment-16166 Hi Chris You're right, remuneration is a many and varied thing. One thing I can suggest (and you may have it in your list but worded differently) and that is to tie some level of remuneration/bonus to business objectives. My better half is an office manager at a local podiatrist and she has gone from office girl/receptionist to business/office manager. She frequently acts as sounding board and ideas generator to her boss all with the view of improving the business at large. She then reaps part of that reward only as the business grows (which it does!) Just a thought. Bill Hi Chris
You’re right, remuneration is a many and varied thing. One thing I can suggest (and you may have it in your list but worded differently) and that is to tie some level of remuneration/bonus to business objectives.
My better half is an office manager at a local podiatrist and she has gone from office girl/receptionist to business/office manager. She frequently acts as sounding board and ideas generator to her boss all with the view of improving the business at large.
She then reaps part of that reward only as the business grows (which it does!)
Just a thought.
Bill

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