The Business of Dentistry Podcast Practice Plan

Joanne Phillpott, Regional Support Manager at Practice Plan is joined by Dr. Vivak Shah, Dentist and Practice Owner and his children Arjun, 12, and Aryan, 10 to talk about their recent charity trip to Mozambique where they provided dental care for thousands of patients.
What you’ll hear:
An overview of the trip and the reasons for going
An example of what a typical day looked like
Stand out moments
How other dentists can get involved.
To find out more information visit https://www.smilestarcharity.com/

Hussein Hassanali, Associate Dentist at Woodthorpe Dental Centre is joined by Dr Ritesh Aggarwal, Dentist and CEO at Psynergy Mental health to talk about the wellbeing of your associate dentists and share their advice on keeping them happy and engaged.
What you’ll hear:
Getting associates more involved with the wider team
Creating a sense of belonging and open culture
Utilising skills and strengths 
Dealing with micromanaging 
Clinical autonomy
Associates investing in themselves.
Who should listen:
Practice managers
Practice owners
Associate dentists.
Hussein graduated from the University of Liverpool in 2009 and completed his PG Dip in Restorative Dentistry in 2020 which granted Fellowship of BAARID. He is an Associate Dentist in York with a special interest in ultrasonic restorative dentistry. He has a broad range of experience, having worked in both NHS and private, and both corporate and independent practices. To date, he has over 20 publications to his name, and continues to support the profession through his regular contributions, as well as being on the BDJ Reader Panel and an Editorial Advisory Board Member of Young Dentist Magazine.
Dr. Ritesh Aggarwal is a practicing Dentist, Practice Principal and the CEO of Psynergy Mental Health. He has been working within the mental health industry since 2017 and has a strong drive and determination to improve mental health for all. Ritesh wants to improve the dental industry by implementing Psynergy programmes via their digital platform to measure the mental health and wellbeing culture of dental practices, creating action plans for improvement and inspiring positive, long term behaviour change for the benefit of all with the practice. Psynergy is currently trying to shift the paradigm of mental health to a more preventative approach, similar to dentistry, and is working closely with NHS research teams to achieve this. To find out more visit https://www.psynergymentalhealth.com/

In this edition, Iain Stevenson, Wesleyan Financial Services Head of Dental, talks to Steve O’Connor, Associate Director of Christie & Co, a specialist business property adviser to dental professionals.
They discuss Christie & Co’s recently published Business Outlook and what it means for dentists and their business and personal finances.
This podcast is for information only and doesn’t provide either financial or business advice.
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To find out more about the Business Outlook visit: https://www.christie.com/business-outlook-2024/

Les Jones, Creative Director at Practice Plan is joined by Kevin Rose, Dental business coach at Rose & Co. Kevin shares his philosophy of developing dental practices by emphasising both human touch and digital results.
What you'll hear:
How Rose & Co was established
Building trust with patients, encouraging self-thinking teams, and prioritising patient care over purely clinical outcomes. 
The difference their approach has made to the practices they've worked with.
To learn more about Kevin and his work at Rose & Co., visit www.roseand.co/

Hazel Dockery from Practice Plan is joined by Dr Amit Jilka, Practice Owner at Abbey House Dental to talk about his experience running both an NHS and private practice.
What you'll hear:
Amit's journey towards private dentistry
The benefits to patients, team and practice from offering both services
Advice for those contemplating introducing private dentistry into their practice.
 

Zoe Close, Head of Sales at Practice Plan Group catches up once again with Mike Hesketh, Founder and CEO at Hesketh Healthcare. This time they talk about his dental consultancy work and delve deeper into the system of success that has proven results for the practices he works with.
What you'll hear:
How Mike started his dental consultancy
The systems for success
What sort of practice would benefit from the consultancy
Stand out examples of the difference its made to practices.
To find out more visit https://www.heskethhealthcare.co.uk/dental-consultancy