How much does acupuncture cost?

Details of fees

Treatment sessions normally last about 45 minutes. My fee for these sessions is £38.

The first acupuncture consultation

The first session usually lasts one and a half hours. This enables me to take your complete case history, form my initial diagnosis and give you your first treatment (see What happens in a consultation?). The fee for this session is £48.

Reduced fee for your first six treatments

If you pay in advance for your first six weekly treatments (payment is made at the end of your first treatment), then I would only charge £196 for these six treatments. The first six treatments would usually cost £238. This is a saving of £42, which means that you would be receiving one full treatment free of charge.

In return for this extra discount, you would need to agree that:

• All the appointments are booked in advance (at the end of the first treatment).
• Appointments may be rescheduled, but only if you can give at least one full week’s notice (this would enable me to then rebook that slot for another patient).
• The fee is non-refundable (so that, if you should decide to not take the full six treatments, then you would not expect any part of your payment to be refunded).
• If any of the appointments are cancelled with less than one full week’s notice (for whatever reason, including sickness), or if any appointment is missed, then you would forfeit the fee for that session and it may not be rescheduled. (If you were to miss an appointment in this way, this would prevent me from working in that time-slot, which involves a loss of income for me, and also I would still be liable to pay the room rental fee, so I hope that you can understand why I would not be able to refund your payment for the missed session. However, in effect, you would still only have paid £196 for 5 treatments, which is less than the full price for 5 treatments.)

My reward scheme

If your health problem has been building up for years, in the early stages of treatment, you are likely to require several weekly or fortnightly treatments, before the distance between treatments can be widened further. In this situation, in order to help you with the cost of your treatments, I have adopted the following reward scheme:

While you are receiving either weekly or fortnightly treatments, then I will give you £15 discount on every third treatment. I offer this discount as a reward for you not cancelling any sessions at short notice. If you were to cancel a session at short notice, I would not therefore be able to give you this reward. For the purpose of this reward scheme, ‘short notice’ means anything less than a week, as this would not usually give me enough time to rebook that time-slot, and I would encounter all the same problems I’ve mentioned in the Cancellation section.

Payment methods

In order to keep costs down, I do not currently have the facilities to take payment by credit or debit cards. I can only therefore take payments by cheque or cash.

Gift vouchers

I have gift vouchers available. If you would like to give someone the gift of an acupuncture treatment, or series of treatments, or would just like to pay towards a single treatment for them, then you can purchase a gift voucher from me for this purpose. The vouchers start at £10, in £10 increments, or whole treatments may be purchased. Please phone me to discuss your requirements.

 

Concessionary acupuncture treatments

I have concessionary rates, which apply to people on means-tested state benefits, such as Jobseekers Allowance, and full-time students. I would usually treat concessionary clients in cancelled sessions. When I receive an appointment cancellation, I would then offer that session to a concessionary client. Therefore, as a concessionary client, you would need to be able to come to the clinic with only a few hours notice.