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Plain-English answers on the rules that apply to a private allied health practice in the UK - and the standard each one rests on.
Clinical & practiceShockwave 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
Clinical & practiceWhat 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
Clinical & practiceWhich 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.
15 min read
Clinical & practiceReactivating Lapsed Patients: A UK Guide That Respects PECR
Lapsed patients are the cheapest you will ever rebook. What UK consent rules (PECR) let you send, what the message should say, how many attempts to make, and when not to try.
14 min read
Clinical & practiceWhich 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.
15 min read
ComplianceWhy Counsellors Have to Charge VAT When Physiotherapists Do Not
VAT exemption for health services follows statutory registration, not the work you do. Why counselling is standard rated at 20% and physiotherapy is not.
VATA 1994 Sch 9 Group 7 · VAT Notice 701/579 min read
ComplianceDo I Need a Local Authority Special Treatment Licence?
Massage, acupuncture and dry needling licensing across the UK: Wales made it criminal in 2024, London exempts HCPC, Scotland exempts regulated professions.
Public Health (Wales) Act 2017 · London Local Authorities Act 199110 min read
ComplianceSports Therapist vs Physiotherapist: What Can You Legally Call Yourself?
Physiotherapist is a protected title with a criminal offence attached. Sports therapist is not. That single difference changes your VAT, your advertising and your insurer access.
Health Professions Order 2001, article 3910 min read
ComplianceHow Long Should You Keep Counselling Records After a Client Leaves?
BACP points at three years. The NHS code says twenty. The seven years repeated across therapy software blogs has no authoritative source. Here is how to decide.
UK GDPR · BACP Ethical Framework 202610 min read
ComplianceCan I Call Myself a Nutritionist Without a Degree in the UK?
Legally, yes. Nutritionist is not a protected title and the register that governs it says so itself. Dietitian is protected, and misusing it is a criminal offence.
Health Professions Order 2001, article 399 min read
ComplianceWhat Can Chiropractors Legally Claim in Advertising?
You cannot advertise treating whiplash. That single restriction catches most clinics marketing to road traffic accident patients, and a CAP breach is also a GCC breach.
CAP Code section 12 · GCC Code standard B310 min read
ComplianceWhat Health Claims Can a Dietitian Legally Make in Marketing?
Two separate regimes govern this and almost nobody separates them. Your HCPC registration is what lets you make treatment claims a nutritional therapist cannot.
CAP Code section 12 · Regulation (EC) 1924/200610 min read
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