Balancing the need for efficient and effective dental services with the drive to offer a truly people-centric patient experience is at the heart of the new commissioning landscape. As dental practices take ownership of marketing their services to local people – often ‘in competition’ with neighbouring practices – they’re looking to increase patient numbers and [...]
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Meeting the challenge of NHS Dental Reforms: Your Essential Guide
SO Change: managing demand and supporting citizens
A new study says Councils could potentially save up to £5billion each year by managing customer demand and supporting their citizens to make different lifestyle choices. DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION OF THIS BLOG HERE It’s reported that the majority of senior-level decision makers questioned believe traditional methods of generating efficiency savings aren’t adequate to meet [...]
UK Social Marketing Conference: Insight, challenge, inspiration
What a great day at the UK Social Marketing Conference 2011– full of inspiring people and ideas! This week’s event in Brighton brought together thinkers and practitioners from all over the world to debate, discuss and present new thinking and evidence aimed at addressing complex issues spanning environment, crime, health and environmental awareness. Not only were we asked [...]
So Change it: Five steps to sustainable behaviour change
How can you deliver sustainable, cost-effective change to meet the needs of individuals, organisations and wider communities? Whether you work in the public or private sector, recognising the essential links between organisations, their cultures and the communities they serve is key to driving long-term change. But how can you develop a framework which really works [...]