New practice start up
This introductory guide provides some ideas to help you establish an entirely new practice and is structured according to the stages that you will go through.
More about New practice start upBusiness management
From buying and selling, naming your practice and creating partnerships, here's how to manage your dental business
Business management overview
Whether NHS, mixed or private, dental business management requires knowledge of legal and regulatory tasks required of owners and managers.
Buying a practice
This advice provides an overview of the process of buying and owning a dental practice, market research, planning and where professional advice is needed.
More about Buying a practiceDeveloping a business plan for your dental practice
Guidance to help you develop a structured business plan for your dental practice, assess your current position, and define the steps needed to achieve your goals.
More about Developing a business plan for your dental practiceCompanies and LLPs
This advice provides an overview of the implications of running your practice as a limited company or an LLP.
More about Companies and LLPsIncorporation concerns in Northern Ireland and Scotland
This advice applies to dentists who have incorporated and work in Northern Ireland and Scotland.
More about Incorporation concerns in Northern Ireland and ScotlandPartnerships
This advice provides an overview of working in a partnership.
More about PartnershipsLeases and licences
This advice should help you negotiate a fair working arrangement by leasing or licensing a commercial property for a dental practice.
More about Leases and licencesNames and branding
This advice summarises the importance of a business name, including protecting it, the value and registration process of trademarks.
More about Names and brandingPlanning permission
If you are building new dental practice premises, or altering or extending existing premise, you are likely to need planning permission.
More about Planning permissionBusiness continuity
Advice on business continuity planning involving a contingency plan for situations that could seriously affect the long-term survival of a dental practice.
More about Business continuityManaging organisational change in your dental practice
Guidance for practice owners on planning, managing and embedding organisational change effectively within a dental practice.
More about Managing organisational change in your dental practiceDeath and serious illness
This advice is aimed at non-dentists who find themselves in the position of managing the practice of a dentist who has died or is too ill to work.
More about Death and serious illnessDentists' legal rights as commercial purchasers
Learn more about the contracts dental practices make with other businesses, suppliers, and tradespeople, including advice on contract law and rights as a commercial buyer.
More about Dentists' legal rights as commercial purchasersExtreme weather: Closing or staying open
When faced with a heatwave, snow and ice, flooding or other extreme weather, you may decide to keep your practice open, or to close it. In either case, it is important to plan how it will affect your practice, staff, and patients.
More about Extreme weather: Closing or staying openMoney laundering
This advice describes the obligations on businesses to avoid being involved in money laundering activities.
More about Money launderingMusic and visual recordings in the practice
Advice on playing copyrighted media in the dental practice: music, television or film, including permission and licensing.
More about Music and visual recordings in the practiceSelling a practice
This advice will help you prepare your dental practice before putting it on the market and guide you through the sales process itself.
More about Selling a practiceDental Practice Insurance Specialists
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