If You Want To Do More Private Practice, You May Need To Do Less Private Practice. You need to take time to build a great practice and this time needs to come from somewhere. There are usually 3 potential sources: - your NHS work - your Private Practice work - your family The default is your family and you spend all of your time in the NHS or Private sector and your family never see you. If you make a conscious decision about where the time should come from, you would probably choose one of the others. It is hard to drop sessions in the NHS, so it may be better to reduce the work in the Private Sector while you build a better practice for the future. Let me explain....