Antonia O'Hanlon

What I do here

I founded Quantum Medix and I lead how we find practices, structure offers and arrange the funding behind them. In practice that means if you send us an enquiry, you are dealing with me rather than being passed along a chain — and the person who agrees terms with you is the person who has to make them work afterwards. That is deliberate. It is harder to make a promise you will not have to keep when you are the one who will be keeping it.

Where I come from

Twenty years in engineering and operations leadership, including running more than fourteen international engineering teams. That work is mostly about one problem: making complicated things run predictably in many places at once, when the people doing them are skilled, busy and quite reasonably attached to their own way of working.

That is the problem a dental group actually has to solve. Most groups struggle not because they cannot buy practices but because they cannot join them together without flattening what made each one good. It is why I am building this group around shared systems from the beginning rather than assembling practices first and hoping to integrate them later, and why our own software was built in-house rather than bought.

Where clinical decisions sit

With the clinicians making them now. That is a design principle of the group rather than a concession: the people treating patients are the people best placed to decide how, and a group that overrides that tends to lose the thing it just paid for. We have a senior dental adviser on our board who has owned and run practices and worked with dental corporates, and that experience is in the room for anything affecting a practice clinically.

Get your own advice

I am a buyer, not your adviser. My interest is in acquiring your practice and building on the business already there, which is exactly why you should have your own solicitor and accountant — and they should be people who do dental transactions regularly rather than general corporate work. Anyone in my position telling you otherwise is worth ignoring.

What I have written

I write the guides on this site. They are meant to be accurate and useful whether or not you ever speak to us, including where the honest answer is that selling to a group is not your best option:

• Sell your practice
• Succession planning
• Practice valuation
• Joining a dental group
• Share or asset sale
• NHS contract transfer
• How long a sale takes

If you think something in them is wrong, I would rather hear it than not. Corrections go to partners@quantummedix.com and the page gets a new review date when it changes.

How to reach me

Email partners@quantummedix.com, or use the confidential enquiry on any page of this site and tell me only as much as you are comfortable telling me. An early conversation is an enquiry, not a commitment, and it stays between us.

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Company details, the group structure and an honest account of how far along we are: see about Quantum Medix.