Thinking about going private?

Most physios thinking about private work are not planning to hand in their notice. They want a private caseload alongside an NHS or agency role: a few home visits a week, paid at private rates, built up at their own pace. Done properly, that is a realistic plan. Private initial assessments across our network are typically charged at £85 to £105, which changes the maths of a working week quite quickly.

The hard part is not the physiotherapy. It is everything around it: what to set up first, what insurance you actually need, where patients really come from, and what to charge. Most of the advice online is written for American clinic owners or is trying to sell you a £2,000 coaching package.

So we wrote down what we know. It is free, it is specific to UK physios, and it does not assume you want to open a clinic.

What's in the free sample

Not a teaser and not an email drip: two complete modules of the actual course, online, yours the moment you sign up. No fluff, no jargon, no "unlock your potential".

Module 1 — Your practice, your rules

What being your own boss really looks like, the honest maths with real UK rates, and a live income calculator you set with your own numbers.

Module 2 — Your offer and your prices

Your patch, your rates against real network benchmarks, a rate-card sense-checker that spots the classic pricing mistakes, and how to answer an enquiry so it turns into a booking.

Plus: the launch checklist

A printable one-page checklist covering registration, insurance, set-up, marketing and admin.

And a taste of the AI toolkit

The full course hands you tested AI prompts for nearly every task — your Google description, your website, your reports. The sample shows you how that feels.

Why listen to us?

Mobile Physiotherapist is a national network of self-employed physios providing home visits across England and Wales. It was founded by Lizzie Thornton, a Chartered Physiotherapist (MCSP), and there are CSP members across the team.

The difference between this course and generic business advice is data. We run the websites, the marketing and the enquiry lines for physios in more than twenty counties, so we know what private physiotherapy actually costs, what patients actually search for, and which marketing actually produces enquiries. That is what goes in the course, not theory.

Get the free sample

How the course works

The sample is free and instant. Sign up below and the link lands with you straight away: two full modules online, with the working tools built into the pages.

The full course, The Private Practice Playbook, is listed in the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy's course directory and goes ten modules deep: your Google profile, a review engine built for an older caseload, a website you build with AI (we explain how websites work from scratch), referrals from case managers and care homes, AI-powered notes and reports, and building a team — plus the complete Prompt Library, where the AI heavy lifting is already done for you. It is an online course you access with a private link, on any device, one-off payment of £75.

And the shortcut: the full course is free when you take on a county with us. Buy it first and later take a county, and the £75 comes off your first invoice. See which counties are open.

Secure payment by card through Stripe. Your access link appears the moment the payment goes through, and we email it to you as well.

Free reading before you decide

Eight guides from the blog, written for physiotherapists, covering the questions we are asked most often about going private.

Frequently asked questions

Is it really free?

Yes. The two sample modules and the checklist are free, no card details, nothing to cancel. We do it because some of the physios who try the course go on to join our network or buy the full version, and the rest tell their colleagues about us. That trade works for everyone.

Will you fill my inbox?

No. You get your access link, then the occasional practical note and a heads-up when a county opens. Every email has an unsubscribe option and we act on it.

I work for the NHS. Can I still do this?

Usually, yes. Many physios build a private caseload alongside an NHS post. You will need to check your contract and your trust's secondary employment policy, and module 1 of the course covers exactly that.

Do I have to join your network?

No. The course teaches you to build a practice on your own; a county listing with us is one shortcut among several and we say so honestly. If your county happens to be open and you want it, that route is here.