BP Allied is closing on 31 July 2026 — why Nookal is a natural new home for your practice

There's a hard date on the calendar now: Best Practice is switching off BP Allied on 31 July 2026. After that day there are no updates, no fixes, and no support.

If your clinic runs on BP Allied, the deadline isn't up for negotiation — but how you respond entirely is. This is a practical plan for moving on well before the cut-off, without losing a day of clinic time, plus an honest look at where Nookal fits in.

First, read the deadline correctly

The most expensive mistake is treating 31 July 2026 as the day to switch. It's the day to already be off. Past it, BP Allied is frozen:

• no security patches as new threats and regulations emerge,
• no help desk when something stops working,
• and a slow drift out of compliance for a system holding sensitive health records.

Your data doesn't disappear on 1 August — but getting it into a supported platform is now your responsibility, and the clinics that handle this calmly are the ones that start early.

What to demand from your next platform

Whatever you choose, put it through the same questions. A replacement worth its salt should answer yes to all of these:

• Built for allied health? Or a general medical system you'll spend months bending to fit?
• Handles your money properly? Medicare, health-fund and private billing, online payments, and a clean line into your accounting.
• Cuts admin, not adds it? Online bookings, automated reminders to curb no-shows, and notes you can write quickly.
• Telehealth included rather than a separate subscription bolted on.
• No lock-in. You can get your data out again later, the same way you're getting it out of BP Allied now.
• Looked after. Actively developed, secure, and backed by support you can actually reach.

Use that list on every vendor you trial — Nookal included.

Where Nookal fits

Nookal is made for allied health clinics — physios, psychologists, OTs, podiatrists, speech therapists, osteopaths, chiropractors, dietitians and Pilates studios — and it answers each of those questions:

• Scheduling and reminders that keep the diary full and no-shows down.
• Clinical notes with AI assist — voice-to-text and speech recognition, so write-ups don't eat your evenings.
• Online bookings and digital intake so new clients onboard themselves.
• Telehealth and remote tools without a second platform.
• Invoicing, online payments and Xero integration, with reporting in one place.
• Case management and analytics to keep records and the numbers together.
• Active development and reachable support — the things an end-of-life product can no longer offer.

Getting your data across

The data move sounds daunting and rarely is — especially with time in hand. A sensible sequence:

1. Export from BP Allied. Pull your records out; your data belongs to you.
2. Load into Nookal. Bring the basics across yourself, and let our team handle clinical notes and history securely.
3. Sanity-check it. Book a test appointment, raise an invoice, open a handful of client files before you rely on it for real.
4. Switch and archive. Move day-to-day work over, and keep a permanent export of your BP Allied data for your records.

There's no need to flip everything overnight — most clinics ease across over a week or two, so the team stays comfortable the whole way.

Questions clinics ask us

Start while the runway's long

The 31 July 2026 date is fixed; the stress around it is optional. Begin now, trial Nookal against the way your clinic actually works, and switch with months to spare.