You worked for your qualificationsMake your qualifications work for you
If you are not charging enough for your chair time you are competing with every unqualified person who
decides to sell spectacles or contact lenses
Tel: 01278 431470 Email: [email protected] House, 67 Wembdon Road, Bridgwater, Somerset TA6 7DR
www.ef-c.com
1 Business AssessmentIdentify what your costs are and how much you should be charging for your chair time
What we do: Develop a costed clinical development plan Where: This is best started at your practice Cost: From £1000
2 Clinical Service ProgrammeBreak down your clinical services into modules and identify what you will provide as ‘basic’, ‘standard’, ‘enhanced’, ‘diagnostic’ and ‘therapeutic’ What we do: Use our model practice to help develop yours Where: You may want to see our test practice Cost: From £1000
3 Staff TrainingAll of the practice team must understand the importance of charging appropriately for clinical chair time. We will work with your team if required to ensure that they all help you deliver a fair fees programme
What we do: We train your team for 1 day Where: At your practice or a local venue Cost: From £1000
4 Implement Professional Fee ProgrammeAll clinical services will be delivered as part of a structured fee programme What we do: Support the development and launch of your fees programme Where: By e mail, telephone or in person at your practice Cost: From £500
5 STEPS TO FAIR FEES
FORESIGHT EYECARE PROGRAMMES Ltd
5 Team TrainingMaking sure that the whole team understand and explain the programme to your patients will take some time. It is vital that everyone delivers the same message
What we do: We train your team for 1 day Where: At your practice or a local venue Cost: From £1000
Our associated company, Foresight, can help you move to the next stage, which is to reinforce your patients loyalty by giving them theopportunity to fund their eyecare by monthly direct debits. Thishelps secure better practice cashflow and benefits clinicalservice development
“Why give away your best asset — your qualifications and skills — and then compete for sales in a market that anyone can enter”
Each of these modules will be tailored to meet your specific requirements
E F - C (Eyecare Fee Consultancy) is run by an Optometrist and an Optical Business Director. They have developed one of the largest,
most successful independent practices in theSouth West of England
They use their practice and experience to train optometrists and optical staff about how to implement and deliver a
fully funded fee programme
Janet Hatt and Richard Llewellyn can help you achieve the same sort of results from your practice that they have
already achieved in theirs
