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Atlacare vs Jane App: Honest Comparison for UK Practitioners
How Atlacare and Jane App compare on pricing, data location, clinical notes and patient features for UK physiotherapists and allied health practitioners.
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Atlacare vs Cliniko: Which Is Right for Your UK Physio Practice?
An honest comparison of Atlacare and Cliniko for UK physiotherapists and allied health practitioners: pricing, data location, notes, and where each wins.
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ADIME Notes: What UK Dietitians Actually Use Instead
ADIME is the American framework. UK dietitians work to the BDA six-step model with PASS statements, and the BDA dropped its recording guidance.
BDA Model and Process for Nutrition and Dietetic Practice (2021)9 min read
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Should You Offer Video Consultations in Your Physio Practice?
Bupa requires a peer-to-peer connection with no stream retention, which rules out how most clinics use Zoom or Teams. And your indemnity has a geography clause.
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What Qualifications Do You Need for Pitchside Work?
The football ladder runs from Level 1 to ATMMiF, with Level 4 at around £595. And your award may not be portable to another sport, which catches people out.
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How Do CCSD Codes Work for Private Insurance Billing?
The schedule is owned by four insurers and sits behind a login. It is built on OPCS-4, and the code defines the procedure without setting the fee.
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Shockwave Therapy for Physiotherapy: Devices, Costs and Whether It Pays
What separates focused from radial, what the energy figures mean, what a machine really costs once consumables and irrecoverable VAT are counted, and what to ask before you sign.
Peer-reviewed best-practice review · NICE HTG20018 min read
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What Is a Good Diary Utilisation Rate, and Why Does 80% Break Things?
Free calculator: work out your real diary utilisation in seconds. UK private practice runs at 72.3% — push past 80% and wait times more than double, which is where patients start leaving.
UK Private Practice Barometer 202614 min read
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Which Add-On Services Actually Pay? A Discipline-by-Discipline Guide
Every supplier quotes you a payback period. None of them count the slot the treatment occupies, which is usually the number that decides it.
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How Do You Win Back Lapsed Patients, and When Should You Not Try?
The cheapest patients you will ever book are already in your records. But UK consent rules make most of the advice you will read on this unusable here.
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Which Six Numbers Should a Clinic Owner Actually Track?
Most practices track revenue and nothing else. Revenue is the output. These six are the inputs, and they tell you what to fix while there is still time.
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Should an OT Bill for Travel Time, and at What Rate?
There is a published government figure: £40 an hour for travel time and 45p a mile. It sits below the assessment rate, which tells you the convention.
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Reducing No-Shows With Elderly Patients: Why SMS May Be the Wrong Tool
One study found SMS reminders made attendance worse for the over-70s. Another found 14% of elderly patients did not know they had an appointment at all.
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Do Private Insurers Cover Osteopathy, and How Do You Get Recognised?
AXA requires a year of full GOsC registration first. Bupa recognises therapists individually and requires an enhanced DBS. And one network rule stops you charging the gap.
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How Do You Price a Domiciliary Podiatry Round?
The unit of profit is the round, not the visit. Tightening a scattered round to a clustered one is worth about £150 a day before you change a single fee.
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Counselling Directory vs Psychology Today: Which Is Worth Paying For?
Real UK prices for both, plus the third option most therapists never consider at a quarter of the cost. And why no directory will tell you its conversion rate.
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How Do You Get on Insurance Panels Like Bupa and AXA as a Psychologist?
Bupa wants a year full-time post-qualification and an enhanced DBS. AXA's published criteria name no DBS at all. The two are less similar than practitioners assume.
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What Should a Mummy MOT Cost and Include? (And Can You Call It That?)
UK Mummy MOT assessments run £99 to £120. But the name is a licensed brand with a training course and a monthly fee attached, which nobody selling one mentions.
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Setting Client Conduct Standards as a Massage Therapist
Most of the advice treats this as an awkward moment to handle gracefully. It is better handled as terms of business, written down before the first appointment.
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Spa Employment, Renting a Room, or Going Mobile: What Actually Pays Best?
Room rents run £10 to £60 an hour depending on where you are. But the comparison everyone misses is that renting a room can trigger a licence fee that going mobile does not.
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How Much Should an OT Charge for Reports Versus Sessions?
There is a published government rate for expert OT work, and it sits below every other therapy profession in the same table. Worth knowing before you quote.
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How Much Should an Osteopath Charge in the UK?
Every page answering this is written for patients. Here is the practitioner version, with the only benchmark survey the profession has and what it means for your fee.
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What Insurance Do You Need to Start a Private Physio Practice?
CSP membership insurance covers your limited company only below £200,000 turnover. Bupa sets a different bar again. Two thresholds most physiotherapists never hear about.
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How to Get Recognised by Bupa, AXA and Vitality as a Physiotherapist
Bupa requires a lead clinician with five years post qualification experience and a Sessional Average at or below 5.5. Here is what AXA and Vitality require too.
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Sole Trader or Limited Company? Choosing a Structure for Your Private Practice
Two things changed in April 2026 that alter the answer: dividend tax rose and Making Tax Digital arrived for sole traders. What that means for a UK allied health practice.
2026/27 tax year10 min read
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Practice Management Software for Osteopaths: What Actually Matters
What GOsC Osteopathic Practice Standards require of your records, what that means when choosing clinic software, and the features osteopaths need that generic systems miss.
GOsC Osteopathic Practice Standards · UK GDPR9 min read
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How Many Patients a Week Do I Need to Replace My NHS Salary?
The sessions-per-week maths for leaving the NHS, at 2026/27 Agenda for Change pay bands, using real UK clinic benchmarks for utilisation, no-shows and margin.
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How to Get More Physiotherapy Patients Without Paying for Ads
UK benchmark data on what a patient actually costs to acquire, why retention beats acquisition on the numbers, and the free channels that work in order of return.
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What Does It Actually Cost to Set Up a Private Practice in Year One?
An honest line-by-line for a UK allied health practice: registration, indemnity, ICO, room rent, equipment and software, plus the cost nobody puts on the list.
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How to Reduce Physio No-Shows: UK Benchmarks and What Works
What a missed appointment really costs a UK physio clinic, the benchmark no-show rates to measure yourself against, and the exact reminder wording trials show cuts DNAs by a quarter.
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How to Set Up Online Booking for Your Physio Practice (Without Paying Commission)
What marketplace commission actually costs a UK physiotherapy clinic, how it compares to the real cost of acquiring a patient, and how to run your own booking page instead.
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What to Charge as a UK Physio in 2026: Session Rate Benchmarks
Setting your physio rates? 2026 UK benchmarks for initial assessments, follow-ups and home visits, London vs the rest of the UK, and the maths that turns a fee into an income.
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How to Write SOAP Notes for Physiotherapy (With Examples)
What goes in each section of a physiotherapy SOAP note, what the HCPC looks for, and two annotated examples you can adapt.
HCPC standards for record keeping5 min read
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Practice Management Software for Physiotherapists: What It Does and Whether You Need It
A plain-English guide to what practice management software handles in a physio practice, what to look for, and how much to expect to pay.
Buyer’s guide4 min read