Expanding Dental Practice: Exploring Multi-Site Operations

About This Course

Learn the ins and outs of multi-site dental practice with this comprehensive course. From location selection to financial planning and team building, explore the advantages and challenges of operating multiple sites.

Why Take This Course?

The course addresses several challenges that UK dental professionals face when operating multiple sites. These challenges include remote management, communication, regulatory hurdles, cohesive brand identity, financial risk assessment, managing overhead costs, exploring funding options, designing a financial plan, recruitment strategies, employee training, positive practice culture, legal considerations, business models for scalable growth, utilizing technology, patient retention strategies, and constructing business continuity plans. By providing strategies for overcoming these challenges, the course helps dental professionals build and sustain successful multi-site practices.

This course covers the basics of multi-site dental practice, including advantages, challenges, location identification, and financial considerations. It also discusses strategies for team building, sustaining operations, and overcoming regulatory hurdles while maintaining a cohesive brand identity.

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How This Course Supports GDC Enhanced Dental CPD

“Dental professionals have a duty to keep their knowledge and skills up to date. A primary qualification is only the first step in their education and development which should last throughout their professional life” General Dental Council

Learning Objectives	Anticipated Outcomes
1: By the end of this course, learners will be able to develop and implement a strategic digital transformation roadmap tailored to their dental practice’s specific needs and objectives.	1: Upon completion of the course, participants are expected to develop and implement a comprehensive digital transformation roadmap to meet their dental practice’s unique needs and objectives.
2: Upon completion, learners will have the capacity to effectively manage and scale their digital investments, optimizing the use of resources and ensuring significant return on investment.	2: As a result of this course, learners will likely possess the skills to effectively manage and scale their digital investments, ensuring optimal resource use and a significant return on investment.
3: Participants will demonstrate their ability to identify, monitor, and interpret relevant key performance indicators for their digital strategy, facilitating informed decision-making processes.	3: The course should lead to an ability among learners to identify, monitor, and interpret relevant key performance indicators (KPIs), ultimately enabling them to make data-driven decisions for their digital strategy.
4: By the final session, learners will have mastered strategies to anticipate, plan for, and overcome potential challenges that might occur during their digital transformation journey.	4: In the wider context, the course aims to contribute to the development of digital-age-ready dental professionals who can anticipate, plan for, and overcome potential challenges in their digital transformation journey.
5: At the course’s conclusion, attendees will have developed the competency to leverage technology for growth in their dental practice, enhancing patient care capabilities and business success in the digital age.	5: Following the course, the expectation is that attendees will display a competence in leveraging digital technologies for growth in their dental practice, enhancing both patient care and business success.

Regulatory Standards

GDC	CQC
✅ A – Effective Communication ✅ B – Effective Management ✅ C – Maintenance in Field of Practice ✅ D – Maintenance in Patient Confidence	✅ Caring ✅ Effective ✅ Leadership ✅ Responsive ✅ Safe

🕐 90 minutes of Enhanced Dental CPD

Course Description

The course is designed to help individuals understand the basics of multi-site dental practice, including the advantages and challenges of operating multiple sites, identifying potential locations for expansion, and analyzing successful multi-site practices. The course also covers strategies for overcoming challenges such as remote management, communication, regulatory hurdles, and cohesive brand identity. Financial considerations are covered, including financial risk assessment, managing overhead costs, exploring funding options, and designing a financial plan for multi-site expansion. Building a highly effective team is discussed, including recruitment strategies, employee training, positive practice culture, and legal considerations. Sustaining multi-site operations is covered, including business models for scalable growth, utilizing technology, patient retention strategies, and constructing business continuity plans.

Course Outline

Section 1

Section 1 of the course covers the basics of multi-site dental practice, including the concepts, advantages, and challenges of expanding to multiple locations. It also discusses how to identify potential locations for expansion and analyzes successful multi-site dental practices through a case study.

Section 2

Section 2 of the course covers the challenges of multi-site dental practices and strategies for overcoming them, including remote management best practices, efficient communication, regulatory hurdles, cohesive branding, and problem-solving scenarios. Financial considerations are also explored, including risk assessment, managing overhead costs, funding options, and designing a financial plan. Additionally, the course covers building and managing a highly effective team, with recruitment strategies, employee training and development, and legal considerations. Finally, the section covers sustaining multi-site operations, including business models, technology utilization, patient retention strategies, and business continuity planning.

Section 3

Section 3 of this course focuses on financial considerations for multi-site dental practices, including financial risk assessment, managing overhead costs, exploring funding options, and designing a financial plan for expansion. It also covers building a highly effective team, including recruitment strategies, employee training and development, and legal considerations. Finally, it addresses sustaining multi-site operations through business models for growth, technology for efficient management, patient retention strategies, and constructing business continuity plans.

Section 4

Section 4 of this course focuses on building a highly effective team in a multi-site dental practice. Topics covered include recruitment strategies, employee training and development, cultivating a positive practice culture, and legal considerations when employing across multiple sites. The section also includes a case study on effective team management in multi-site dental practices.

Section 5

Section 5 of the course covers sustaining multi-site operations. This includes discussing different business models for scalable growth, utilizing technology for efficient multi-site management, implementing patient retention strategies, constructing business continuity plans, and a summary of key points covered throughout the course.

Course Reviews

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Great course that provided insightful information on how to successfully operate multiple dental practices. The financial considerations section was particularly helpful in creating a solid financial plan.

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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The strategies for overcoming challenges in multi-site practices, such as remote management and regulatory hurdles, were extremely valuable. The course provided practical solutions for tackling these obstacles.

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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As a dental professional, I found this course to be incredibly informative and useful in identifying potential locations for expansion. The section on patient retention strategies was especially helpful in maintaining a cohesive brand identity.

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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