About Kestrel Physio
UK private physiotherapy has drifted toward a high-throughput model. Fifteen- or twenty-minute appointments, patients double-booked, handouts and upsold packages. That model is profitable. It is not particularly effective for the kinds of chronic musculoskeletal problems people actually walk in with.
Kestrel was founded in 2016 by a physiotherapist who had spent a decade inside that model and could not make it work. We are small: four practitioners, no receptionists on commission, no sales targets, no block-booking of rooms. Our appointments are forty-five minutes as standard.
Our practitioners
Lydia Hart
Founder, Principal Physiotherapist
BSc Physiotherapy (Manchester), MSc Sports and Exercise Medicine (QMUL), HCPC PH104560
Ten years across NHS orthopaedics and private practice before founding Kestrel. Specialism: shoulders, chronic low-back pain, return-to-running.
Finn O'Sullivan
Physiotherapist, Sports Rehab
BSc Physiotherapy (Brighton), MSc Sports Injury Rehabilitation (Bath), HCPC PH201238
Eight years in elite sport, including two seasons with an English Premiership rugby club. Specialism: tendon loading, cycling, post-surgical ACL.
Priti Nair
Osteopath
MOst (BCOM), GOsC 7120
Twelve years in osteopathy, last six at Kestrel. Specialism: whole-body assessment, recurring headaches, desk-related postural pain.
Tom Reinhart
Physiotherapist, Women's Health
BSc Physiotherapy (UEA), PG Cert Pelvic Health, HCPC PH184201
Ten years in mixed practice, with a women's health specialism. Pre- and post-natal, pelvic pain, continence rehab.
Eight years
2016
Founded by Lydia Hart on Halliford Street, one treatment room, ninety-minute launch-week appointments.
2018
Expanded to three rooms, four practitioners.
2020
Built the post-surgical rehab pathway after running it informally for two years.
2022
Turned down acquisition by a national physio group to stay independent.
2024
Eight years, 2,400 patients on file, 88% returning.
Regulation
Every physiotherapist is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and holds active membership with the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP). Every osteopath is registered with the General Osteopathic Council (GOsC). Every practitioner completes the continuing professional development the regulators require each year.
Individual registration numbers are published above, and any complaint can be directed to the HCPC, GOsC, or CSP independently of us. We would prefer you raised it with us first. In eight years we have had one formal complaint, resolved in full, and we will tell you about it if you ask.