The blog of Alun Rees, The Dental Business Coach
When I passed my finals in 1978 my father sent me a note which read, “Alun, Congratulations. It was your day but you made it ours as well. We will celebrate when we meet. Dad.”
37 years on, I have written a similar note to our son but can also share my good wishes in different way. Today, 13th July 2015, at 11am or thereabouts he graduates.
So, Will, thanks for letting us share your success.
“There has never been a day when I have not been proud of you, I said to my son,
though some days I’m louder about other stuff so it’s easy to miss that.”
From StoryPeople
“The more rules and procedures you impose the less creative and compassionate your people will become”
Lisa Rodrigues – lisasays it could be you
With a sub-title of “How great leaders inspire everyone to take action” this book sets its stall out from the very start. Simon Sinek first came to my attention when I watched his celebrated Ted Talk (see below) and I was wary that this book would be “just” another “how to beat the competition by playing the same games” book.
I couldn’t have been more mistaken, the author examined individuals that have had great success in many different fields and walks of life and he found that they all have things in common they all think, act and communicate in the same way. He refers to this as “The Golden Circle” and it all starts with the word WHY..
Most organisations can explain what it does, many can tell you how they do it but there are very few who can say WHY they do what they do. Incidentally it’s not money or profits, those are the results.
This book helped me hugely to get clear what it is that I do by making me confront, embrace and celebrate the reasons WHY I do it.
It will do the same for you.
Available from Amazon here.
Here’s Simon’s 5 minute TED talk.
Please see below our response to the PSA’s annual report on healthcare regulators which was published on Friday.
PR40.15
26 June 2015
How badly must a regulator perform before someone intervenes, asks BDA
The British Dental Association (BDA) is concerned that the General Dental Council (GDC) has come bottom of the league in an assessment of the performance of nine healthcare regulators, published today by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
The PSA highlights that the GDC failed to meet a total of seven of its standards of good regulation.
On fitness to practise, the GDC fully met only one of the 10 standards, and failed to meet six others, representing what the PSA describes as a significant decline in its performance compared to an assessment it carried out in 2013/14.
The BDA notes that the jury couldn’t decide on whether the GDC had met two additional standards on fitness to practise pending an ongoing enquiry by the PSA.
The PSA has yet to comment on whether it considers the GDC’s activities in this area are “transparent, fair, proportionate and focused on public protection”.
Commenting on the PSA report, BDA Chair Mick Armstrong, said:
“Sadly this report makes familiar reading. Yet again GDC registrants must acknowledge that they are being regulated by the worst health regulator in the UK. What is worse is that, as far as dentists are concerned, it is now also the most expensive by a country mile.
“The findings in relation to fitness to practise come as little surprise as stories of waste, mismanagement and unreasonable practices abound.
“It is difficult to understand how badly the GDC has to perform before someone actually intervenes.”
Ends
(To access the report here’s the link.)
“Theory with data is blind.
Data without theory are trivia”
One of the very few things that I miss about clinical practice is helping patients with gum problems to accept that they have a problem. Being the leader of the team in assisting patients to get themselves back to health and then ensuring that they maintained their health was so a source of great satisfaction.
I often felt that my enthusiasm for treating perio was out of step with a lot of my contemporaries, so much so that I remember using the phrase “Periodontitis – the disease that dare not speak it’s name” at one meeting on crown and bridge.
This film, The Sound of Periodontitis, made by the European Federation of Periodontology (EFP), was launched at the recent EuroPerio meeting – I’m sorry I missed the conference as it seems to have been a great few days.
I wish this film had been available for us 25 years ago. Please share.
Demand and not profitability dominates dental practice values says the most recent bulletin from UNW Dental Unit.
The latest NASDAL quarterly goodwill survey, for the quarter ending 30th April 2015, indicates that prices achieved on the sale of some dental practices are more indicative of high demand than the profits that can be achieved.
The highest values are still being commanded by NHS practices, which, in the view of the impending reform of contracts, is illogical, given the uncertainty of the reformed contract, but reflecting the massive surplus of buyers over sellers.
However, private dental practice values appear to be gaining ground. The average goodwill value secured for a private practice was 99% of gross fee income. This compares with a figure of 90% for the quarter ending January 2015 and 88% for the quarter ending October 2014.
Meanwhile, the value of NHS practices continues to outstrip mixed and private practices. The average goodwill figures are 125% of turnover for NHS practices, and 104% for mixed practices. The overall average figure for all types of practice is 113%.
It is very important to note that there were a number of transactions in the survey which varied significantly from the averages, so the survey results should be seen as providing a rough guideline only, and specific practice circumstances must always be taken into account.
The whole document is shown below:
If you are an Dental Professional and you are working under the current NHS contract as either of those demeaning terms provider or performer please take a few minutes to complete the NHS Confidence Monitor.
The first of these surveys was commissioned by Practice Plan at the end of 2014. The results can be seen here.
To have your say, please complete the current survey:
www.surveymonkey.com/s/NHSConfidenceMonitor
…and then share, it runs until mid-July.
The Incisal Edge 