Suffolk Community Acupuncture

General information

‘Community’ or ‘Multi-bed’ Acupuncture is a model of care, which looks to utilise the full potential of Acupuncture as a viable, mainstream treatment.

Community Acupuncture involves treating patient together in the same, communal space at the same time. Communal treatment maximises the therapist’s time and therefore provides a solution to the problem of cost effective treatment.
It means patients can come and receive treatment with their friends and family if they wish and allows the effects of ‘communal healing’ to improve the power of treatment. Patients who attend community clinics often benefit from the sense of ‘community’ generated in multi bed clinics as well as benefiting from group and peer support.

At SCA we charge you on a sliding scale, which means that you pay what you want to pay between £10 and £35, per treatment - no questions asked. This doesn’t effect in any way what treatment you receive and you don’t get anything extra for paying more!

So what’s the point?

Understandably the concept of choosing what to pay is slightly confusing for some people- we are very used to paying fixed amounts for goods and services.
However there are many reasons for using a sliding scale.
Primarily it is used to help make treatment more affordable for a wider proportion of the population and helps to lessen the financial burden of paying for treatment. If you can afford to pay £35 a treatment then you can, in the knowledge that you are contributing to something greater than your self. Its up to you what you pay and you will never be asked to justify yourself.
You pay what you can afford or what the treatment is worth to you.

What it also means is that if your condition or problem requires many treatments, over a short period of time, then you can pay less so that you can come in more frequently and get enough treatment to gain satisfactory results.

We don’t care if you pay on the lower end of the scale. In fact we would prefer it if you paid the minimum and were able to continue having treatment for as long as you needed it.

If the cost of treatment is an issue, please let us know. We want you to come in for acupuncture frequently enough to really feel better.