To meet our strategic vision we have therefore moved away from an overtly centralised business model to one structured into 21 geographically-based clusters of up to 10 practices.

The cluster model
Each cluster is run by a full-time cluster operations manager and a part-time cluster clinical director. This balanced management team - who are fully profit & loss accountable with the authority to make the majority of day-to-day capital expenditure decisions - ensure the application of local knowledge. This structure also ensures that staff and associates work in a culture of belonging to a wider Oasis community. This has a number of benefits:
• optimisation of internal referrals
• focus on local recruitment activity
• sharing of resources, experience and best practise

Acting as a corporate body
Alongside the cluster teams we have five regional dental directors as well as the central clinical Board, formed of a majority of senior dentists. This team is charged with the construction and maintenance of our clinical governance framework, and to determine clinical support for the services we provide.
Our commercial team meanwhile focuses on optimising the commercial gains from our size and scope, including optimising supplier deals and implementing new products and services across the estate.

The future
In the short term Oasis will focus on the continued implementation of localised clustering and optimisation of profit from the existing estate. In the longer term we anticipate embarking on a structured acquisition strategy. We are confident that our vision and strategy will allow a success to be made from the corporate dentistry model.