GROWTH ACCELERATION – DENTAL PRACTICE GROWTH
Turbocharge practice performance
With Collaborate’s Growth Acceleration Program
GROWTH ACCELERATION
Program overview
Establish your ideal practice faster and MORE efficiently by accelerating growth, success and opportunity with data-driven, smarter, faster decision-making using:
- Innovative technology and SAAS tools
- Tried and tested systems, procedures and protocols
- Knowledge, advice and support from experienced dentists, dental practice owners and senior exec-level corporate operators.
‘’Initially, I had reservations about the idea of being ‘managed’ by Collaborate. However, Derek’s clear explanations of the Goals, Processes, Procedures, and his innovative ideas for advancing the practice, have given me a sense of excitement and purpose’’
Joanne Leatherbarrow
Practice manager
Advanced Academy of Endodontics, Harley Street
Program benefits
Increase revenue, profitability/EBITDA, practice value, income wealth and job enjoyment/satisfaction.
Re-define your vision, ambition and goals
We’ll help you define your vision, ambitions, and goals so we can identify objectives, a strategy plan of action and a timeframe to achieve them.
Facilitate clinical excellence
Provision of high-quality treatment and care to increase patient satisfaction, trust, loyalty, and demand.
Attract and retain high-quality staff
Build a team that shares your vision, provides clinical excellence, achieves patient satisfaction, maximises productivity and creates a happy rewarding work environment.
Save time, money and effort
Tried and tested solutions that increase operating efficiency, increase revenues and profitability, create opportunity, and save time, cost, and effort.
Attract and retain high-value patients
Acquisition and retention of high-value patients increases revenue, profitability/EBITDA, secures financial stability, and drives practice growth.
Generate wealth and financial security
Build a business that is robust, valuable and saleable to generate personal wealth and financial security ultimately.
Download the factsheet
Growing a Practice
Download our Growing a Practice factsheet (a print-ready version of this page) for further reference.
Program deliverables
No other support program comprises the breadth and depth of expert knowledge, advice, tools and solutions to fix issues, address key challenges, overcome obstacles.
1. Define vision, ambition & goals
Know where you’re heading and why.
2. Practice health check
Assessment of your business’ performance and wellbeing.
3. Member Action Plan
Guides decisions, aligns efforts, promotes 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. Weekly performance reviews
Analyse and evaluate day-to-day progress, providing intel to drive quick fixes/easy wins.
7. Quarterly performance reviews
Evaluates progress, adapts strategies, enhances decision-making, fosters continuous improvement.
8. Financial reporting (P&L)
Evaluates profitability, guides decisions, informs strategy, ensures financial health.
9. Regulatory compliance & dummy CQC inspection
Avoids penalties, ensures patient safety, maintains trust and legal adherence.
10. Marketing audit
Evaluate the effectiveness of current marketing activity in achieving business objectives.
11. Growth acceleration marketing strategy (outline)
Guides efforts, attracts customers, ensures brand consistency, and fosters growth.
12. Acceleration project management
Organises 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.
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.
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.
Tactical modules
Integrated into your Growth Acceleration 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 Growth Acceleration Team
Join the Growth Acceleration Program and expand your team with a program director, program pilot, or program administrator, 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
Growing a Practice
Download our Growing a Practice 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.
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Practice transformation
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Preparing to exit
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