Business planning or forecasting is essential to all businesses, whatever size, large or small. You need to plan for what you think might happen in the future, both short-term and longer-term. Making regular forecasts and comparing them to actual achievements will enable you to: •keep tight control over your business and understand what’s happening within your practice […]
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Business Planning/Forecasting – what can it do for your practice?
Are you a Consultant without a website?
Sometimes Consultants just feel it isn’t right to mix Medicine with Marketing. Healthcare is a necessity that everyone needs at some point in their life, whether they have the option of being seen privately or under the NHS it is required. If a patient decides to be seen privately they want to know who, when and […]
Social Media – good or bad for the medical profession?
Here is an article which you may find interesting if you cannot decide whether you should be tweeting or blogging? Last summer, I joined millions of others in the deluge of social media. I committed one year of effort to see if social would enhance or distract from my pediatric practice. That was my goal, […]
My Story
I have had various secretarial/PA roles throughout my career but being a Medical Secretary has by far been the most enjoyable. I started in 1994 at an NHS hospital; previously I worked for a pharmaceutical company for three years but felt it was time to move on. I applied for the role of Medical Secretary although […]