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Staff Spotlight – 60 seconds with Sally Barr, our Managing Director
We are introducing a new staff spotlight with a different member of the Trust Health team each time, to give you a snippet of their life and what motivates them. Today, we have 60 seconds with….. Sally Barr, our Managing Director What do you love about your job? I thrive on the variety in my…
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Why work with a billing company?
Do you have access to monthly financial reports showing value of invoices sent, received and monies outstanding? Do you fully understand your current financial position? Are you up to date with your banking and allocations? Are your patients invoiced immediately for their excess and/or shortfall payments? Is your current aged debt more than a few…
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The Building Blocks for a Successful Private Practice
You’ve been working as a consultant in the NHS for a while now and you decide you’d like to establish a private practice alongside. You obtain admitting rights with a couple of private hospitals and you register with the insurance companies….and then wait for the patients to come rolling through the door. But rather unexpectedly,…
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5 Top Tips to grow a successful Private Practice
Are you wondering how to make your private practice more successful? The following 5 changes are an easy way to start: Focus on what you are good at…..and that is being a clinician if you are in doubt! Do not think you are helping grow your practice by running all aspects of it yourself, it…
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Frustrated with the inefficiency of weekend waiting list initiatives?
You know your NHS hospital has a backlog of patients that need operating on and needs extra surgeon resource. You offer to give up your free time on Saturday to do a waiting list initiative (WLI) and agree to undertake four knee replacements. So….you turn up at 7.30am ready to get going only to find…
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Is your Private Practice looking rosé?
How nice has the weather been recently to sit and relax in the garden with a glass of rosé. But can you relax when thinking about your private practice? Probably not or you may not be reading this! It is a common misconception that when you set up a private practice, patients will be there…
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Bee…….true to yourself
Setting up a private practice is hard work and requires many skills. It is not quick or easy but there are things you can do to make it easier. Be true to yourself and realise where your skills lie and, importantly, focus on how to get the best return for your time and effort. You…
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Are you worried about topping out on your NHS pension?
So.. you’ve been in the NHS for twenty years, and your accountant has written to you to say that you’re about to reach the limit of pension contributions in your NHS pension pot before you’re fleeced for more tax. You’re not dead yet and you fancy working for a bit longer, whilst the kids are…
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Why do I need to waste my time obtaining patients’ insurance details?
Why should I waste time obtaining insurance details for patients? In the good old days typically the only patient demographics required were name, address, telephone number and date of birth. Now there appears to be an endless stream of data which needs to be collected on every visit – membership and authorisation numbers, email addresses,…
