What Should a Mummy MOT Cost and Include? (And Can You Call It That?)

A Mummy MOT postnatal assessment typically costs £99 to £120 for an hour in the UK. The part almost nobody mentions is that "Mummy MOT" is a licensed brand, not a generic description, and using the name requires a specific course and an ongoing licence fee.

If you are a patient, the first half of this article tells you what you are buying. If you are a physiotherapist deciding whether to offer one, the second half is the part that matters, because it is the question every practitioner asks privately and no ranking page answers.

What is a Mummy MOT?

It is a structured postnatal physiotherapy assessment, usually around six weeks after birth or at any point afterwards, designed to check how the body has recovered and to build a rehabilitation plan.

A typical assessment includes:

A full postnatal history, covering the birth itself
Diastasis recti assessment, meaning the separation of the abdominal muscles that happens in pregnancy
External and internal pelvic floor assessment
Posture and pelvic alignment screening
A bespoke recovery programme
A written report

The internal examination is the part that distinguishes it from a general postnatal check. It is also the part that sets the practitioner requirements, as we will come to.

What does it cost in the UK?

Published prices from UK clinics cluster tightly.

Clinic	Initial assessment	Duration
Bump to Beyond	£99	60 minutes
Physica Health	£110	60 minutes
Ravenscroft Health	£120	60 minutes

Follow-up sessions are commonly around £90. These are observed prices from named clinics rather than a survey, so treat them as a market picture rather than a benchmark, and expect London to sit at or above the top of that band.

For context on how that compares with ordinary physiotherapy pricing, the UK median physiotherapy initial assessment is £74 and the median follow-up £63, according to the Private Practice Barometer 2026, a survey of 715 clinic owners. A Mummy MOT sits well above a standard initial assessment, which is defensible given the length and the specialist competence involved, but it is worth knowing the gap you are asking a patient to accept.

Can any physiotherapist offer a Mummy MOT?

No, and this is the finding that changes the article.

Mummy MOT® is a registered brand, not a generic service name. It is used under licence from the trademark holder, and the licensing route runs through a specific practitioner training course.

What that involves, according to the brand's own published terms:

A two day practitioner course
Eligibility limited to registered physiotherapists, osteopaths, midwives or doctors
A prerequisite of competence in external pelvic floor assessment, and being confident performing basic internal vaginal examinations, or completion of a recognised pelvic floor assessment course
An ongoing brand licence starting at £15.99 per month on a tiered basis, which carries the right to use the name and assets, a logo and asset pack, and a listing in the brand's find a practitioner directory

So the name is not free, and it is not yours. If you have completed the course and hold a current licence, you can advertise a Mummy MOT. If you have not, advertising one is a use of somebody else's brand.

To be clear about what we did not find: we found no record of enforcement action against practitioners using the name without a licence. This article is not reporting that anyone has been pursued. It is reporting what the licence terms say, which is a different thing, and which is enough to make it worth checking your own position.

What if you do not want to pay for the licence?

You can deliver exactly the same clinical assessment under your own name. The clinical content is not proprietary. Pelvic floor assessment, diastasis recti measurement and postnatal rehabilitation planning are ordinary physiotherapy practice, and nobody owns them.

What you cannot do is use the branded name to market it.

Plenty of practitioners run a "postnatal check", a "postnatal recovery assessment" or a "six week postnatal physiotherapy assessment" and price it in the same band. The trade is that the brand carries recognition with patients who have heard of it from other mothers, and a directory listing that generates enquiries. That is what the monthly fee buys. Whether it pays for itself depends entirely on how much of your new patient flow comes through that directory rather than your own clinic page and Google Business Profile.

What do you actually need to be competent to do it?

Independently of any brand, the internal examination is the gate.

The CSP and POGP guidance paper on pelvic floor examination treats vaginal and anorectal examination as a post registration competence. Any route to it is acceptable, whether a university module, a commercial course or work based learning, provided it includes practical education overseen by an appropriately qualified practitioner.

One line in that guidance matters for anyone running a clinic rather than working alone: the techniques are not accepted as being within the scope of practice of physiotherapy support workers or assistant roles. There is no delegating this part to a rehab assistant, whatever the appointment is called.

Consent and chaperone practice sit alongside that. Written consent is not mandatory for an intimate examination, but the offer of a chaperone, the identity of any chaperone present, and any refusal should all be recorded. Our guide to UK GDPR for practitioners covers how sensitive records of this kind should be handled once written.

How should you price and structure it?

Three practical points if you are building the service.

Price the hour, not the label. A sixty minute appointment with an internal examination, a written report and a bespoke programme is a substantial piece of work. If your standard initial assessment is £74 and this takes twice as long and requires an additional qualification, the £99 to £120 band is not a premium, it is arithmetic.

Decide what the report is worth. The written report is often what the patient values most and what takes your unpaid evening time. Build it into the fee rather than treating it as goodwill.

Plan the follow ups at the first appointment. Postnatal rehabilitation is a course, not an event. Agreeing the number of sessions at assessment is the single highest value administrative act in the appointment, and it is why sessions per episode of care is the largest lever in private practice economics. Systems like Atlacare hold a treatment plan against the patient with sessions planned against sessions completed, so a course that stalls is visible rather than invisible.

The short version

If you are a patient: expect around £99 to £120 for a sixty minute assessment that includes an internal examination and a written plan, and expect to need more than one appointment.

If you are a practitioner: the clinical assessment is yours to offer once you are competent to perform internal examination. The name is not, and using it costs a two day course plus a monthly licence. Decide which of those two things you are actually buying before you build a marketing page around it.

Prices are observed examples from named UK clinics at the time of writing, not a survey or a recommended rate. Licence terms and course requirements are as published by the brand holder and may change; confirm current terms directly before advertising under any licensed name. This is general information, not legal advice on trade mark use.

Sources: UK Private Practice Barometer 2026 for comparative physiotherapy fee medians · published price pages of the clinics named above · practitioner course and licence terms as published by the Mummy MOT brand holder