Costs for home visits

Hi All

Apologies for cross posting but I thought this was a very good piece of advice from one on the most successful businessmen around.

If you are going to give a PROPER SAFE EFFECTIVE practice to patients IT WILL COST YOU MONEY.

Business is all about profit and loss if you want to be the best charge the appropriate fee for the job (it varies in area's and services provided)

Don't get caught up in the patients finances !!

If Pts want the training security and safety in practice as Darren pointed out then they will have to pay for it or rely on the NHS / others to provide the service and take the risks involved of irregular visits etc
In the UK the average weekly income for the single elderly is around £250 per week or more( including allowances). And a visit from a Pod doesn't make too much of a dent in that over the 6 / 8 weekly visits during the year.

The above quote could also be :-
If you want to run a charity do so but if you want to run a successful business charge a successful fee and re -invest in your business and training to give your patients a better deal.
Just my thoughts ( and practice over 20 years)

Cheers
Derek

 

I think everyone's missed the point! Let common sense prevail. No matter what service or commodity a seller is providing, the charge for the job is what the buyer can pay. For over 30 years I've worked for Social Services in the UK and later chose to practise in the main with state pension and benefit dependant people in the UK. I am happy receiving just £16 for local visits, £15 for surgery, and £20 for in patients at the local NHS hospital which has a Podiatry Department on the ground floor and will not treat in patients. Patients also complain NHS will not cut and trim and use a drill to debride nails "due to Health and Safety" (presumably because of dust?). You know, I do nicely from these vulnerable and neglected members in our community. There's frequent criticism from "chiropodists" and "podiatrists" in the NHS of the many practitoners content to "cut and trim", but if the NHS was able to provide comprehensive foot care (of which, nails, being part of the foot, also need treating), a much higher standard of foot care would be in evidence from those genuinely unable to pay the thoroughly extortionate fees charged by many private practioners. Oh, and yes, I am a registered chiropodist......