PracticeOpsAI
Plain-English templates for UK therapists in private practice — what's actually required right now, what's only a draft, and the documents to sort the difference. Most of it's free.
No cost, no catch. Print them, fill them in, pass them to a colleague if they're useful.
A gap-analysis you fill in by hand. Twenty-nine questions across five areas — and every section labelled binding now, good practice, or not in force yet.
Since 19 June 2026 the Data (Use and Access) Act means any practice holding personal data needs a written complaints procedure, and has to acknowledge a complaint within 30 days.
Most therapists have something in place — a note to a supervisor, a quiet word with a partner. The question is whether it would actually work on the worst day.
If you couldn't practise tomorrow, who contacts your clients? BACP's Ethical Framework (Point 42), UKCP's Code (point 28) and BABCP's Clinical Wills Policy already require an arrangement — and almost nobody has written one down, because it means thinking about something nobody wants to think about.
£39 one-off
See the pack →Rules for solo practices change quietly and nobody sends a letter. I read the updates so you don't have to, and email when there's something real — not when there's something to sell. A few times a year, and you can leave whenever you like.
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I'm Stevie McLaughlin. I'm not a therapist — I spent my working life on the tools, in construction and trades, and I'll say that up front because it matters.
I spent a year interviewing therapists across Scotland and the north of England, and the same thing kept coming up. People trained properly to do the clinical work, and then handed a business to run with no training in running one. Contracts, records, data rules, insurance, what happens if you're ill — all of it landing on someone who just wanted to see clients.
So that's what I do. I read the compliance updates, work out what genuinely applies to a one-person practice, and write it down in plain English — including, often, "this doesn't apply to you yet, ignore it."
The templates here are the useful bits. Most are free. If something's wrong or unclear, tell me and I'll fix it — stevie@practiceopsai.com.