Practice Management · Issue 49 · 15 June 2026

Run a fresh patient-flow audit before the year gets away from you

The bottlenecks in your practice are usually invisible to the person standing in them.

Walk your own patient journey, start to finish, as if you were a first-time patient. The phone call. The booking. The wait. The room. The follow-up. Where did it feel slow, confusing, or cold?

Most practice owners haven't done this in years — they know their systems from the inside, which is exactly why they can't see where they're failing.

A proper patient-flow audit, done honestly once a year, finds the small frictions that quietly cost you rebookings and referrals — long before a patient ever complains about them.

Block an hour this month. Walk it yourself. Write down every point where you'd have hesitated.

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Free first step: the the patient-flow audit checklist.

With respect,
Annie

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