Practical writing on running a practice
Practical writing on running a veterinary practice: appointments, records, rotas and the software behind them.
22 October 2026
A plain explanation of what practice management software does in a veterinary clinic, what it replaces, and how to tell whether your practice needs one system or is coping fine with several.
Read the post17 October 2026
Missed appointments cost more than the empty slot. Here is what actually reduces them: reminders people read, changes clients can make themselves, and a diary that records what happened.
Read the post12 October 2026
Scheduling advice that survives a busy Monday: consultation lengths that reflect reality, buffers, who is allowed to book, and why the rota and the diary have to be the same thing.
Read the post7 October 2026
Paper is not stupid, and digital is not automatically better. What each is actually good at, where digital genuinely wins, and the migration question nobody asks until it is too late.
Read the post2 October 2026
A buying guide that does not assume the answer: the questions worth asking, the demo requests that reveal most, and the three things that decide whether a system survives contact with your practice.
Read the post27 September 2026
Why rotas drift away from the appointment diary, what that costs, and how to build a weekly pattern that clinic hours, leave and closures all feed into automatically.
Read the post22 September 2026
Shared logins are the most common security problem in small practices, and the easiest to fix. A practical way to decide what a receptionist, a nurse, a locum and a practice manager each need.
Read the post17 September 2026
Hosted software is less work; running it yourself gives you control. An honest look at what each actually means day to day, and which questions settle it.
Read the post12 September 2026
A migration plan that survives contact with a working clinic: what to move, what to leave, the line-in-the-sand approach, and the week-by-week order that keeps the practice running.
Read the post7 September 2026
Most practices communicate more than they think and worse than they would like. What to send, what to stop sending, and how to let clients do the easy things themselves.
Read the post2 September 2026
Not a dashboard full of charts. Five figures a practice can act on — what each tells you, what changes it, and why most practice reporting measures the wrong things.
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