- understanding the finances of your business on the path from set-up to retirement
*This is a half day course (PM) and lunch will not be provided. Tutor: Chris FitzGerald Duration: Half Day Session Who should attend? Physiotherapists wanting to have an all round knowledge of finance matters for the running of their practice This course introduces many aspects of financial planning within the context of a physiotherapy practice, helping you to improve your financial success and maximize your business value
Tutors: Paul Donnelley and Jon Wigley
This course has been specifically commissioned by Physio First to form part of its Post Graduate Education Programme in recognition of the significant gap in both the undergraduate and post-graduate business syllabus and the recent and substantial changes in the private practitioner market place. In addition as most generic “business courses” do not specifically relate to self-employed Physiotherapists and often: • Suggest strategies which are inappropriate. • Are non-specific about what works for private practitioners • Even where they score highly on both of the above, fail to present the information and concepts to take into account the fact that many practitioners have had almost no exposure to formal business training.
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Course Description
This course aims to develop the participant’s awareness of the policy background and legal status of the "fit note" and provide an evidence based framework for considering fitness of return to work that takes account of both functional status and work demands.
Learning outcomes
On completion of this one day course the participants will:
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Duration: One Day
This course has been specifically commissioned by Physio First to form part of its Post Graduate Education Programme in recognition of the fact that there is a significant gap in both the undergraduate and post-graduate business syllabus.
Most generic courses on marketing and promoting your business do not specifically relate to self-employed Physiotherapists and often:
- Suggest marketing strategies which are inappropriate for health care professionals.
- Are non-specific about what works for private practitioners
- Even where they score highly on both of the above, practice promotion courses usually fail to address a business fundamental which is that all efforts to promote one’s practice SHOULD be rooted in a Business Plan which contains all of the intelligence that you can gather about your own practice as a business and about the private practitioner sector within which the business operates AND which contains a thought through Marketing Plan.
The overall aim is to offer a comprehensive one-day course that will help members of Physio First understand the well worn business procedure that will lead to you being able to promote your practice with understanding and confidence – to know when a "marketing opportunity" is in fact an opportunity and not a waste of your precious time or money – to know what will work for your practice, which may or may not work for others – to know how to go about meeting immediate and long term challenges/goals that require you to attract more patients of a different type e.g. if you have had a bad experience during recent negotiations with Private Medical Insurers such as BUPA, you may have a mid to long term strategy to reduce your reliance upon patients with their policies, thus minimising the threat of them wanting "more for less" in the future.
Introduction
Many physiotherapists contemplate private practice at some time during their professional careers. Many expect private practice to be a ‘soft option’ or a ‘licence to print money’. For those who succeed in building a successful private practice, nothing could be further from the truth.
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Learning Outcomes
