Practice Promotion & Management

Course Code: DED9469
School: Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK

Description

"For the successful therapist"

You may be the most competent therapist that has ever walked on the planet, but if you have no knowledge of managing your business it will be of little help in keeping you employed. We believe is one of the most important courses you could ever take.

Appeal

To all therapists who would like to start a Practice, and to anyone who has their own practice and would like to see it more profitable. It would be an ideal second or parallel course for students who would like to plan out a Practice strategy for the time they qualify in their therapy.

Intention

To equip the student with all basic business skills to start a therapy Practice, be it clinic, or domiciliary based. The main emphasis of the course is pivoted on caution, and encourages the student to walk before they run. At the same time enforcing the importance of steady planed growth.

Topics in this course include:

• Advertising and promotion
• Keeping patients
• Domiciliary or clinic
• Complaints
• Contacts
• Making referrals
• Importance of patient records
• Therapies that work together
• Being professional
• Tools of the modern practice
• Discounts
• Sales and ancillary services
• Insurance
• Working with the competition
• Finding premises
• The future of holistic therapies
• The EEC and legislation
• Business plans
• Finding capital
• Banking
• Income tax
• VAT
• Employing staff
• Associates
• Business support and in work benefits
• Market research
• Associations

Outcomes

Practice Promotion & Management Certificate

Practice Promotion & Management Certificate issued by Stonebridge Associated Colleges, entitling you to use the letters SAC Cert after your name.

Assessment

After each lesson there will be a question paper, which needs to be completed and submitted to your personal tutor for marking. This method of continual assessment ensures that your personal tutor can consistently monitor your progress and provide you with assistance throughout the duration of the course.

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