LACAP supports low-fee work (e.g. a person not in work would expect
to pay under Ł6 per session). LACAP therapists are encouraged to charge fees for
the therapy because it gives an additional meaning and impetus to the work..If
fees form a part of the working contract, it will always be based on the individual's
ability to pay.
LACAP does not restrict itself only to low-fee work, but has a sliding fee
scale. Where a referral is made and that patient can afford a standard (Ł25-Ł30)
or high fee, the therapist will undertake the treatment at those affordable rates
- in effect there is an internal re-distributive tax policy. |
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This is an essential element for us, because such standard
or higher fee patients subsidise the work at lower fees
LACAP is a 'not-for-profit' organisation, whose resource is the professional skills
its therapists charitably contribute.
LACAP wanted to deal with the question 'what happens after brief intervention?'.
LACAP was formed as a response to the perception that current service provision
fails some of those who could most benefit from a prompt, sustained therapeutic
intervention but who cannot afford it privately. LACAP was formed in September
2000 as a Charitable Unincorporated Organisation, and has some twenty therapists
on its register. |
