Setting up a squat
Set up your ideal squat, and achieve growth and success faster
Setting up a squat
Program overview
Designed specifically for associates considering setting up their first squat or practice owners planning their second or even third 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 and establish the foundations for long-term growth and success.
‘’If you are an associate with a vision or an ambitious practice owner setting up your second, third or more squat, avoid unforeseen pitfalls, costly mistakes, and missed opportunities and get expert help; it will save you time, money and effort and achieve a better outcome’’
Dr Ellie Ledger
Principal Dentist/Practice Owner
Arnica Dental Care
Program benefits
Know what you want to achieve and how
We’ll help you define or redefine your vision, ambitions, and goals so we can set objectives and what we need to do to achieve them.
Risk migration
Protect assets, ensure financial stability, and sustain long-term growth and success.
Save time, money and effort
Getting it right achieves success faster and saves time, cost, and effort.
Facilitate clinical excellence
Provide high-quality dental treatment and care, ensure patient oral health and well-being, satisfaction, trust, and loyalty.
Avoid unforeseen pitfalls
Safeguard resources, minimise the negative impact on your business and ensure sustained growth and success.
Be growth and sucess-ready
Getting everthing right at the outset will facilitate growth and success
Income increased by 22% YoY (22-23)
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Setting up a squat
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Program deliverables
Your setting up a squat program comes with a sequence of solutions that address the key challenges and requirements of setting up a squat.
1. Define vision, ambition & goals
Guides strategy, motivates teams, fosters growth, and ensures long-term success.
2. Practice criteria & specification development
Process that defines what your ideal practice will look like.
3. SETTING UP A SQUAT ROAD MAP
Strategy and plan of action to acquire and develop a property that will create your ideal practice.
4. SITE SPECIFICATION DEVELOPMENT
Site criteria to identify suitable properties.
5. FINANCIAL FORECASTING AND BUDGETING
Mitigates risks, ensures financial stability, guides decisions, and facilitates strategic planning.
6. SITE SEARCH ADVICE & GUIDANCE
Advice and guidance in locating suitable properties.
7. PRACTICE DESIGN & PLANNING
Turning your practice criteria/specification into reality.
8. PLANNING APPLICATION ADVICE & GUIDANCE
Navigate the planning minefield with top tips from the experts.
9. ACCESS TO PREFERRED SUPPLIERS AND DISCOUNTS
Save up to 30% using our preferred ‘tried and tested’ suppliers.
10. REGULATORY COMPLIANCE & DUMMY CQC INSPECTION
Avoids penalties, ensures patient safety, maintains trust and legal adherence.
11. STAFF PLANNING
We’ll help you design a team that shares your vision and facilitates clinical excellence, productivity, performance, growth, and success.
12. MARKETING STRATEGY AND PLAN OF ACTION
Guides efforts, attracts customers, ensures brand consistency, and fosters growth.
13. SETTING UP A SQUAT PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Manage all setting up a squat resources and tasks cost/time effectively for the best outcome.
Forward bookings increased by 26%
What you get
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 includes JIRA that lists key ‘transformation’ activities, tasks, actions, timeframes and targets, and monitors progress.
What you get
Tactical modules
Integrated into your Purchasing a Practice 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.
Admin 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 Setting Up A Squat Team
Join the Setting up a Squat Program and expand your management team with our program director, program pilot, and administrators with support from our preferred specialist partners when required.
Program Director
- Research, strategy, and planning
- Knowledge-share, advice, and support
- Program direction
- Monthly performance review, report, and recommendations
Administrative Support
Program administrator
Practice admin
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
Setting up a squat
Download our Setting Up a Squat factsheet (a print-ready version of this page) for further reference.
5 star rated
Client testimonials
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 6 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 issues and remove barriers to growth and success, reverse decline & 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.