Our Quality Assurance schemes

How can Quality help you and your practice?

HCPC Standards – Here’s How DFI Can Help You Stay Compliant

Our Physio First Quality scheme gives you the opportunity to demonstrate, through fully evidenced and validated data, how effective the quality of treatment and care are in your clinic, whilst at the same time helping you meet the updated HCPC standards. 

Our Quality Assured Practitioner (QAP) and Quality Assured Clinic (QAC)* schemes are available to Physio First members who participate in our data collection scheme (DfI), and are based on meeting a required number of data sets, and set criteria in order to achieve the award. 

Those working towards the Quality kite-mark will receive individualised reports from the University of Keele, together with the National Reports to benchmark your outcomes. This information can be shared with your patients and the wider community as a marketing tool to highlight how your care and treatment methods achieve the best outcomes for patients. 

*Clinics with non-member MSK physios can all be part of our QAC scheme via our QAC participation programme  

Achieving QAP and/or QAC

To find out more about how you achieve our exclusive Quality kite-mark, click on this link. The information also includes how you can get your MSK physios who are not members of Physio First started on helping you to achieve Quality Assured Clinic status. Physio First sole practitioners, and clinics made up fully of Physio First members are entitled to the QAC once they have achieved QAP status. 

How is Quality awarded? 

Our Quality awards are designated to Physio First members who:

• Participate either as a sole practitioner or a clinic in our DfI scheme

• Achieve the required number of discharged data sets per year

• Collect PROM data from patients

• Meet the quality criteria as defined by Physio First in collaboration with the University of Keele

Our QAP and QAC awards are renewable annually.

PROMS and PREMS