Find an approved practitioner
We don’t recommend particular practitioners but to help you find your nearest practitioner we’ve compiled the following list of websites. Please refer to your individual policy information as the terms and benefit requirements may differ.
Acupuncture
Practitioners are required to be fully accredited members of one of the bodies listed and hold the relevant qualifications to practice acupuncture:
- British Medical Acupuncture Society (BMAS)
www.medical-acupuncture.co.uk/Patients/FindaPractitioner - British Complementary Medicine Association (BCMA)
www.bcma.co.uk/find-a-therapist - Fully qualified practitioner, Member of the British Acupuncture Council:
acupuncture.org.uk/find-an-acupuncturist - Fully Accredited Member of an association under the Acupuncture Regulatory Authority (ARA):
acupunctureregulatoryauthority.org.uk/ara-members-list - Complementary Therapists Association (CThA)
www.ctha.com - Acupuncture Foundation Professional Association (AFPA)
afpa.ie/find-a-member - Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (AACP)
aacp.org.uk/practitioner-search - Federation of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners (FTCMP)
ftcmp.co.uk/en/home - Federation of Holistic Therapists (FHT)
www.fht.org.uk/find-a-therapist - British Register of Complementary Practitioners (BRCP)
www.brcp.uk/find-a-practitioner - Acupuncture Society (MAcSAp)
www.acupuncturesociety.org.uk/find-a-practitioner - The Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture UK (ATCM)
www.atcm.co.uk/find-a-practitioner - Acupuncture-Acutherapy Council (AcuC)
www.acupuncture-acutherapy.co.uk/search
Chiropody
- Fully qualified practitioner, registered with the Health & Care Professions Council:
www.hcpc-uk.org
Chiropractic
- Fully qualified practitioner, registered with the General Chiropractic Council:
www.gcc-uk.org
Dental
- Fully qualified dental practitioner, holding current registration with the General Dental Council:
olr.gdc-uk.org/searchregister
Homeopathy
Practitioners are required to be fully accredited members of one of the bodies listed and hold the relevant qualifications to practice homeopathy:
- The Faculty of Homeopathy
www.facultyofhomeopathy.org - The Society of Homeopaths
homeopathy-soh.org - UK Homeopathic Medical Association (UKHMA)
www.naturaltherapypages.co.uk/association/the_uk_homoeopathic_medical_association - Member of the Alliance of Registered Homeopaths
www.a-r-h.org/find-a-homeopath - British Complementary Medicine Association (BCMA)
www.bcma.co.uk/find-a-therapist - Complementary Therapists Association (CThA)
www.ctha.com - Irish Society of Homeopaths (ISH)
irishhomeopathy.ie - Member of The Federation of Holistic Therapists (FHT)
www.fht.org.uk/find-a-therapist - British Register of Complementary Practitioners (BRCP)
brcp.uk/about-brcp/
Optical
- Fully qualified optician, registered with the General Optical Council:
optical.org
Osteopathy
- Fully qualified practitioner, registered with the General Osteopathic Council:
www.osteopathy.org.uk/register-search
Physiotherapy
- Fully qualified practitioner, registered with the Health & Care Professions Council:
www.hcpc-uk.org
Hospital/Treatment Centre
The definition of a Hospital/Treatment Centre is a medical facility that:
- has permanent facilities for caring for patients as an in-patient and/or a day patient and
- has facilities for medical practitioners to diagnose and treat injured or sick people and
- provides nursing services from qualified nurses/midwives who are on the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register (or an equivalent register if the hospital/treatment centre is outside UK) and
- is not a nursing home; hospice, convalescent home; residential care home; prison; health spa/hydro.
Lists of such sites are here:
- Department of Health:
www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-health-and-social-care - Health and Social Care Information Centre:
digital.nhs.uk
Consultant Physician/Consultant Surgeon
They must be a registered Consultant Physician or Consultant Surgeon, including any individual holding an appropriate Consultant Physician or Consultant Surgeon position within a private or registered hospital/treatment centre. You may use the below list to help find someone meeting this definition.
- General Medical Council:
www.gmc-uk.org/registration-and-licensing/our-registers
