BUPA Insurance has announced a number of Initiatives, which will involve tendering for clinical services, and this aspect of their plan has begun with a MRI tender. Certain London based hospitals have been excluded from this tender. The situation here is now fluid and it is the hope of the LCA that these matters can be resolved as patients may well be inconvenienced. Other aspects of the BUPA Insurance Initiatives include a new Schedule of Procedures, a new re-registration contract for consultants and the promise of more interference into clinical care by BUPA Insurance with the introduction of detailed Clinical Care plans developed by an American company called Millimans. The London Consultants’ Association is unhappy about these manoeuvres and supports FIPO in its approach to these issues.
For more details about the whole of the BUPA Insurance Initiatives please go to the FIPO Website...
To see the LCA response to the MRI tender and the impact upon the HCA Hospitals and St Anthony’s Hospital Cheam, click
here...
FIPO and the Association of Independent Radiologists carried out a survey of consultant radiologists and just over 900 from around the UK were sent a questionnaire. Over one third responded and the results can be seen here...
A meeting "More Turmoil in Private Practice!" was held at the Kings Fund on 15th November 2006 to discuss various changes in private practice. For a brief summary of this meeting, please, click
here...
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