Many patients look beyond the NHS for medical treatment. They choose independent therapists for a variety of reasons including convenience, privacy and personal service.

As a GP I am often asked for recommendations about local independent therapists and I realised that  even my local knowledge was patchy and anecdotal. There was no single source of information and I was often confused by the plethora of therapy types and qualifications. 

I wondered whether patients and their advisers were always making the most appropriate choice. Therapists did not seem to have access to a consistent means of promoting their services and there was no mechanism for patients for feed-back on their experience for the benefit of others. The local NHS had all of these things, but independent therapists, due to their diversity and independence, did not.

PRIMETREATMENT  has been developed  with this in mind with an aim to serve patients, their advisors and the therapists.