All MHM clients want to see more patients.
They want to grow their practice by taking advantage of the reported 7.5% per annum growth in self-funders.
Quite right too.
Self-funding patients are an opportunity to grow a private practice.
They want their practice to be a big practice.
How Easy
Sadly, some make it hard for the potential new patient to make an appointment though.
For example, I called a client last Wednesday morning and nobody answered the phone. It wasn’t engaged; it just rang out.
The phone did not go to an answering machine. It just rang out.
Thus it was actually hard and not easy for a new patient to book a consultation.
If I had been the patient, frankly I’d have tried to book with another consultant.
Wrong too.
It is not just the “small” practices that get it wrong. Hospitals get it wrong too. And so do insurance companies.
They all think big but act small.
There is one particular insurance company I speak with regularly who during the call have so much noise in the background, I literally struggle to hear what’s being said to me.
I’m Important
It matters little whether the practice, the consultant or the insurance company think I’m important.
What matters is that I hold the view I’m important.
I’m important because I want to make an appointment or resolve an issue that’s important to me.
I may only be ONE single potential patient but every single patient counts if you want to grow your practice or your business.
Think big; act small
Your practice may have the best website ever.
The consultation rooms you use may be state of the art and look extremely professional.
Both suggest the practice is a big practice.
But if you don’t make sure every single patient feels they are the most important patient ever at every step of the way, you may not see more of them.
Every step of the way does not just mean in the consultation room, it means at absolutely every single step of the way.
Small Patient.
One MHM client saw 126 patients in January 2020 with total revenue of around £35,000.
He hadn’t got time to see any more patients. His clinics are full.
His total revenue in 2019 came in at just over £350,000.
That makes his practice a BIG practice.
All because every single small patient is made to feel they are THE most important patient he has got.
He thinks big but he acts small.
pete@medicalhealthcaremanagement.co.uk