Agilio Articles

Read our latest blogs and thought leadership articles.

13 May

Five COVID-19 SOP changes that you may have forgotten to update

Article featured in Dentistry, May 2021 Fran covers five COVID-19 SOP changes that many dental practices have missed and need updating. We are now over a year into the pandemic and are learning a lot more about COVID-19. So naturally our SOP needs tweaking and updating to reflect this. A Socrates quote fitting to this […]

4 Mar

Dealing with difficult patients

Article featured in Dentistry, March 2021 Communication is key in dentistry, particularly when it comes to dealing with difficult patients, Claire Wigley says. Dealing with aggression and challenging behaviour in the workplace is very stressful and can affect the whole team. Under the current circumstances, tensions are understandably a little more fraught than usual; we’ve […]

19 May

Four Ways Your NHS GP Medical Practice Can Benefit from an Intranet Platform

Modern healthcare is all about driving high-quality patient outcomes. Your quality measures are in direct correlation to the efficiency and cohesiveness of your practice. In order to foster a practice filled with teamwork and communication you need a powerful tool set that brings together all your medical practice’s key stakeholders. An intranet is the perfect […]

21 Apr

5 Reasons Your Practice Cannot Afford to Ignore Website Accessibility

Accessibility is an incredibly important element of your website, especially as a medical practice. Not only do you want to ensure that your website is compliant with government regulations providing equal accessibility to all individuals, you do not want to limit your patients. Consider these reasons why it’s important to make your website more accessible. […]

22 Jan

How to Prepare for a CQC Inspection

Alex O’Neill, Head of Compliance for dental practices, offers some vital insight into CQC inspections After almost five years of the new inspection, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has settled into a standard format, giving us plenty of useful insight into how CQC inspections are carried out, what areas are consistently being looked at, and […]

26 Jun

Personal Development Plans – Have You Done Yours?

The importance of Personal Development Plans When ECPD came in last year, all dentists had to have their Personal Development Plans (PDP) completed and on file by 1 January 2018, all other registrants had to complete theirs by 1 August 2018. The purpose of a Personal Development Plan is for dental registrants to sit down […]