I was reading this book when the sad news of the death of Colin Hall Dexter reached me. Never could such an apt tribute have been written to Colin and his philosophy of practice. He was known as a champion of prevention, of private practice and of communication but if there is one phrase thatContinue reading “The Weekend Read – Putting health at the heart of your practice by Sheila Scott”
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& the converse to yesterday’s blog – do you check your employer?
As a follow on from yesterday. From HBR. Reference-Check Your Future Boss What do you wish you had known about your manager before you started your current job? Work style? Personality? Approach to management? Ability (or inability) to empathize? Most advice around job searching and interviewing has become common knowledge: Research the company, ask questionsContinue reading “& the converse to yesterday’s blog – do you check your employer?”
Do you check social media on new employees?
From CIPD mini polls Social media for recruitment Do you check potential job candidates’ profiles on social media sites? Total votes: 451 23.06%: Yes, as soon as we get the application 17.96%: Yes, but only at the final stage 58.98%: No, we never check social media sites What do you do?
The Monday Morning Quote #275
“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered, than answers that can’t be questioned” Richard Feynman
Private buyers and small groups gaining ground over large corporates in practice sales
From the most recent bulletin from Alan Suggett at UNW. Private buyers and small groups gaining ground over large corporates in practice sales The latest NASDAL goodwill survey reaffirms the ongoing appeal of an NHS contract, with NHS practices and mixed practices still commanding higher prices. In the quarter ending April 30th the average goodwillContinue reading “Private buyers and small groups gaining ground over large corporates in practice sales”
The Monday Morning Quote #274
“If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you dream it, you can become it.” William Arthur Ward
Colin Hall-Dexter, R.I.P.
Colin Hall-Dexter, whose death has just been announced at the age of 84, was one of the finest dentists and teachers I met in my career. Not for his clinical skills which were excellent, not for his qualifications which were BDS, LDSRCS the basic ones needed to practice dentistry and certainly not for seeking highContinue reading “Colin Hall-Dexter, R.I.P.”
The Monday Morning Quote #273
Dedicated to the GDC, CQC, RQIA, Care Inspectorate, HIW, etc etc “To be governed is to be: watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue.” Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Profitable Perio in Practice – September 2014
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Sir Humphrey was briefing the minister (episode 3).
Today’s Ezine. BDA slams GDC proposal to raise the annual retention fee by 64 per cent The chair of the British Dental Association’s Principal Executive Committee, Mick Armstrong, met with GDC leaders this morning and expressed his alarm at the dental regulator’s plans for a 64 per cent rise in the annual retention fee.Continue reading “Sir Humphrey was briefing the minister (episode 3).”
The Incisal Edge 