PRACTICE TRANSFORMATION
Dental Practice Support
Boost efficiency and growth with expert Dental Practice Support services for improved patient care and streamlined operations.
Practice Transformation
Setting up a Squat
Fulfil your ambitions
Purchasing a Practice
Turbocharge practice performance
Growth Acceleration
Set up your ideal practice faster and more effectively by making smarter, data-driven decisions that accelerate growth and success. Our program provides:
- Innovative technology and easy-to-use SaaS tools
- Proven systems, procedures, and workflows
- Guidance and advice from experienced dentists, practice owners, and senior-level industry experts
With the right tools and support, you’ll be equipped to create a thriving practice and seize new opportunities with confidence.
Get back on track
Practice Transformation
Achieve the best sales outcome
Preparing to exit
Our team of former dental practice owners and senior corporate executives is here to guide you through planning your exit.
We’ll work with you to optimise your practice, manage risks, and set you up for the best possible outcome.
‘’Collaborate have been an invaluable partner in our journey to transform our practice for modern day dentistry. They have helped us in the introduction of new dental software, updated our compliance, streamlined our accounting and HR, and recruited a Practice Manager, amongst much more. ’’
Michael Weider
Practice Principal
Maldent Dental Practice & Implant Centre
Program benefits
Define your vision, ambition and goals
We’ll help you define your vision, ambitions, and goals so we can identify objectives and a strategy and plan of action to achieve them.
Refocus on achievable goals and targets
Maintains clarity, boosts motivation, ensures resource efficiency, and promotes sustained growth, enabling practices to navigate challenges and better results faster.
Achieve success faster
Accelerated growth, increased income and wealth generation create opportunity and choice.
Data-driven smarter decision making
Enhanced insights and strategic alignment, optimised operations, reduced risks, improved efficiency, increased competitiveness, and sustained growth and success.
Improve operational efficiency and productivity
Save time, cost, and effort, optimise practice resources for faster delivery, enhance customer satisfaction, and increase competitiveness and overall profitability.
Increase revenue and profitability/EBITDA
Improved practice performance establishes financial stability and creates opportunities for investment and growth to increase income, practice value, and wealth.
Identify and fix barriers to growth and success
Unlocking potential, ensuring adaptability, sustaining competitiveness, fostering innovation, and maximising opportunities are crucial for achieving and maintaining practice growth and success, especially in increasingly competitive local marketplaces.
Identifying issues impacting you and the business and how to fix them is crucial to improving productivity, growth, and success..
Download the factsheet
Practice Transformation
Download our Practice Transformation factsheet (a print-ready version of this page) for further reference.
Program deliverables
Comprising expert knowledge, advice, tools, and solutions to fix issues, address key challenges, overcome obstacles, create opportunity and facilitate growth, success and wealth.
1. Define vision, ambition & goals
Guides strategy, motivates teams, fosters growth, and ensures long-term success.
2. Practice health check
Assessment of your business’ performance and wellbeing.
3. Transformation strategy and plan of action (member action plan)
Guides strategy, motivates teams, fosters growth, and ensures long-term success.
4. Financial forecasting and budgeting
Mitigates risks, ensures financial stability, guides decisions, and facilitates strategic planning.
5. Performance monitoring (KPI Dashboard)
Identifies strengths and weaknesses, informs decisions, and ensures ongoing improvement.
6. Quarterly performance reviews
Evaluates progress, adapts strategies, enhances decision-making, fosters continuous improvement.
7. Financial reporting (P&L)
Evaluates profitability, guides decisions, informs strategy, ensures financial health.
8. Regulatory compliance & dummy CQC inspection
Avoids penalties, ensures patient safety, maintains trust and legal adherence.
9. Marketing audit
Evaluate the effectiveness of current marketing activity in achieving business objectives.
10. Marketing strategy and plan of action
Guides efforts, attracts customers, ensures brand consistency, and fosters growth.
11. Project Management
Organizes tasks, ensures efficiency, meets goals, minimises risks, fosters collaboration.
Program tools
As well as expert advice and support, we’ve developed a suite of proprietary, bespoke, and specially adapted dental practice systems, procedures, protocols and SAAS tools that are easily adapted, implemented, and managed to boost the performance of all practice types
Financial forecasting
Mitigates risks, ensures financial stability, guides decisions, and facilitates strategic planning.
Based on a review of the previous 3 years’ P&L, income streams and productivity, and MAP (Member Action Plan) targets, we’ll identify potential revenue and cost control/reduction.
Online compliance platform
Simplifies compliance, reduces risks, ensures accuracy, and promotes efficiency.
Our cloud based CQC compliance tool provides templated policies, procedures, schedules of requirements, performance tracking tools, dummy CQC inspections and GAP analysis reports.
Project management
Enhances collaboration, streamlines tasks, improves efficiency and ensures project success.
Our feature-rich, easy-to-use project management framework lists key ‘transformation’ activities, tasks, actions, timeframes and targets, and monitors progress.
Practice health check
Assessment of your business’ performance and wellbeing.
Using our KPI dashboard, we’ll compare your KPIs against industry standards for three to six months, during which our experts analyse, interpret, and evaluate the data.
Member action plan
Guides decisions, align efforts, promotes growth, and ensures long-term success.
KPIs are benchmarked against industry standards, and required actions to improve performance are prioritised by our RICE matrix, financial planning, and treatment profitability reports.
KPI dashboard
Identifies strengths and weaknesses, informs decisions, ensures ongoing improvement.
Feature-rich cloud-based dashboard that collates more in-depth KPIs than any system from various data sources, which are then analysed, interpreted, and evaluated by our experts, driving faster, smarter decision-making.
Treatment profitability
Identifies your most profitable treatments and helps set treatment pricing to maximise profit.
Identify which treatment is most profitable and set prices that 1) best reflect treatment value, 2) what patients are prepared to pay, and 3) strategic implications for long-term growth.
Marketing audit
Identifies strengths, weaknesses, and threats, enhances strategy, and ensures marketing effectiveness.
Audit including SWOT analysis of current marketing that compares against industry-standard practice marketing benchmarks/KPIs for patient acquisition, retention, and value maximisation.
Performance roadmap
Guides growth, sets goals, optimises performance, and ensures strategic alignment.
Online operations and a performance roadmap provide a bird’ s-eye view of the key business changes, ensuring we are on target for success.
Tactical modules
Integrated into your Practice Transformation Program are additional stand-alone ‘Tactical Modules’ that optimise crucial business functions essential to growth and success:
Recruitment
Build a team that shares your vision and values
Find, attract, screen, review and recruit high-quality, motivated staff who will facilitate clinical excellence, contribute to the success of your business and be ideal work colleagues.
Bookkeeping
Tracks finances, informs decisions, ensures compliance, and supports financial health
Providing complete and accurate data used to monitor and measure performance within the KPI dashboard, financial forecasting, and P&L.
HR Essentials
Talent management, compliance, culture, employee well-being, organisational success
HR advice, support, tools, and solutions to ensure efficient staffing, compliance, and a positive workplace culture.
Administrative Support
Practical advice and support to help run the practice
Bespoke administration support to help streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and ensure smooth administrative processes, contributing to operational efficiency.
Practice Marketing
Attracts patients, builds reputation, fosters growth, ensures practice visibility
Audit, SWOT analysis, define goals and targets, strategy, and plan of action to achieve them, implementation and management of a bespoke program comprising tried and tested, best practice tactics that focus on three pillars to practice success [1] Patient Acquisition, [2] Patient Retention and [3] Patient Value Maximisation.
Expert Support
Your Dental Practice Support Team
Join the Practice Transformation Program and expand your team with a program director, program pilot, and program administrators with support from preferred specialist service providers.
Program Director
- Research, strategy, and planning
- Knowledge-share, advice, and support
- Program direction
- Monthly performance review, report, and recommendations
Administrative Support
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Program administrator
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Practice administrator
Program Pilot
- Implementation and management
- On-going performance monitoring and reporting
- Operational knowledge, advice, and support
- Practice management support
Expert Partners
- Marketing
- HR
- Law
- Finance
Download the factsheet
Practice Transformation
Download our Practice Transformation factsheet (a print-ready version of this page) for further reference.
5 star rated
Member testimonials
Dr. Ellie Ledger
Principal Dentist/Practice Owner
Arnica Dental Group
Collaborate’s Practice Support Program helped us boost profitability and improve EBITDA prior to successful sale to Bupa Dental Care.
Dr. Nooshin Vasfi
Endodontist
NV Endodontics at Premier Smile
Since I joined as a member, I have progressed in all my plans in refurbishing the practice, in employing new dentists, training staff and training dentists. I improved the foundation of the practice to be able to expand and make the practice a better place.
Dr. Veronica Morris
Principal Dentist / Practice Owner
Smile NW
Collaborate are my right-hand man. I run a small single-handed practice and feel that Collaborate are like a partner – actively helping me with all aspects of running the practice from HR. to monitoring the finances, improving footfall, marketing & recruiting. They are always at the end of the phone and respond quickly.
Dr Christina Diamanti
Practice Principal and Owner
Abbey Road Dental Practice
Ross’s (Practice Pilot) dedication to finding the best solutions for our needs has been a great asset, and his fresh ideas for modernising and growing our practice have been invaluable.
All programs
Practice Support Program
Our 5 Practice Support Programs provide essential support to dentists wherever they are in their practice ownership journey.
Setting up a squat
Collaborate’s ground-breaking Setting up a squat program comprises the knowledge, advice, tools, solutions and support you’ll need to achieve better results faster.
Purchasing a practice
We help you navigate a typically complex, sometimes perilous and always challenging practice purchase process to achieve your best possible outcome.
Growth acceleration
Build your ideal practice faster and more efficiently by accelerating growth, success and opportunity with data-driven, smarter and faster decision making.
Practice transformation
We help you redefine your vision, ambition, and reset goals to fix team issues and remove barriers to growth and success, reverse decline and boost performance.
Preparing to exit
Our experienced dental business specialists provide advice and support to help you navigate an often complex practice sale process for the best possible outcome.