Quality Assured Practitioner

Why become a Quality Assured Practitioner?

Our unique Physio First Quality Assured Practitioner (QAP) scheme aims to help our members to demonstrate what private physiotherapy can offer to patients, and how skills, experience and treatment techniques can achieve the best outcome for every patient.

The scheme is available to full and affiliate members of Physio First who have submitted sufficient patient outcome data to our Data for Impact tool, and whose outcomes have met the criteria defined by Physio First in collaboration with the University of Brighton. Participants are also expected to be collecting validated Patient Recorded Outcome Measures (PROMs).

Our eBooklet tells you everything you need to know about becoming a Quality Assured Practitioner. It explores how acheiving QAP will help you and your clinic, and includes sections that you can share with patients. Just click the image for your own copy and please feel free to share it on your website, in your emails and on social media..

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Visit our Data for Impact page for more information.

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What made you want to become a Quality Assured Practitioner?

Since Physio First implemented the data for impact, it was unclear how this would affect the future of physiotherapy in private practice. However, research conducted by Physio First and the University of Brighton has shown a significant effect on physiotherapists across the UK, particularly in promoting evidence-based practice. We are delighted to have received our Quality Assured Practice Award from Physio First. This award has greatly increased my motivation to deepen my knowledge of my profession, study more relevant articles and research, and apply this evidence in my practice.

How has this helped your practice?
This award will enhance the reputation of our physiotherapy practice and strengthen our commitment to exceeding our clients' expectations by providing even more evidence-based care. Our goal is to make our practice more competitive and continue to offer outstanding care to our patients.

How has this helped your patients?
This award will enhance our treatment efficiency and enable us to incorporate more outcome measurement tools into our daily practice. It also emphasises the importance of clinical reasoning in everyday physiotherapy, ultimately leading to shorter recovery times for our patients.

Navid Zadeh

Rose Clinic Performance Physiotherapy Ltd

To demonstrate a quality standard of care and have data to support outcomes to validate and underpin this such that it could be used to market the practice with confidence.

Karen Winrow

Wirral Sports Medicine and Physiotherapy Clinic

Achieving QAP has more to do with my self achievements and confidence than to my selling myself to our local GP practice.
I have practised in my Area for over 25 years now which in itself says something for my new clients and my returning clients.

Working with Physio First and the Data for Impact has been so encouraging and the statistics produced by Brighton are excellent.

Judith Smith

The Physiotherapy Clinic

As a sole practitioner QAP allows me to monitor my standards of practice and audit the way I am working and the service I'm providing to my patients. It helps me guide my CPD and practice processes to be more effective. For patients searching for a Physiotherapist, it reassures them of the level of service they will receive and highlights my practice to them.

The information I gather also can be used for my Bupa KPI at Bupa renewal so saves me time. Now the collection tool is integrated into my diary system the data collection is more streamlined.

Suzi Hunt

Esher Physio Littleton Surgery

We want our clinic to be at the forefront of the industry and to be a market leader. Being able to analyse the data received in the individual practitioner reports allows us to benchmark against the industry standard to ensure we are providing the best quality standard of care for our patients.

Displaying the Physio First quality assured logo, also helps to give my clients assurance of the quality of care I provide.

Jason Pamer

Return to Play Sports Medicine

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