Emma Wilks is a Business Development Consultant at DPAS and has over six years’ experience in dentistry, mainly supporting dental teams to become more efficient and grow their income. She is particularly passionate about building strong relationships with her customers and helping them find solutions to challenges. In this blog, Emma discusses the need to… Read More
Practice Management
Why a plan works for our practice…
Louise Bone discusses with Colin Gardner how DPAS’s membership plan has helped to manage issues such as a recession and increased regulation… As with all small businesses, dental practices are subject to external factors, such as market forces and legislation, that are beyond their control. While that may be the case, with the support of… Read More
What kind of training should you be investing in?
There’s an often-quoted story where a CEO asks, ‘What if we train our staff and they leave?’, and the CFO replies, ‘What if we don’t and they stay?’… It’s a scenario that many people involved with running a business may feel familiar with. Training is an investment of time and money, and it can run… Read More
Marketing your practice on a small budget
Many dental practices would admit that their marketing can often fall down among their list of priorities. There are a couple of understandable reasons why this is the case, such as most practices not having a team member specifically focused on marketing, and the general busyness of practice life. Budget is also often seen as… Read More
Getting down to business with Louise Beddow
Louise Beddow is the Sales Manager at DPAS, heading up the team of Business Development Consultants. With her experience both at DPAS over the past nine years, and prior to this as a manger of UK sales teams in the industrial and commercial advertising sector, she has a wealth of skills in team-management. Here she… Read More
My typical day managing a dental practice
What does a typical day managing a dental practice look like? Well the first thing to say really, is that no two days are the same – ‘curve balls’ constantly and consistently come along, smashing your well-laid plans to pieces. Be prepared for that and learn to roll with the punches, getting stressed or angry… Read More




