BUPA Insurance has recently written to all its physiotherapy providers in the independent sector asking for detailed returns of information both personal and professional in what is called a quality exercise. Thereafter it is BUPA’s intention to set up a preferred provider network based on pric...

BUPA Insurance has recently written to all its physiotherapy providers in the independent sector asking for detailed returns of information both personal and professional in what is called a quality exercise. Thereafter it is BUPA’s intention to set up a preferred provider network based on pric...

BMI hospitals have recently announced that they are imposing a unified national fee for radiologists for all routine radiological procedures. This does not affect invasive work which carries separate insurance reimbursements. Traditionally the consultant and hospital charges have been bundled tog...

The Care Quality Commission will be chaired by Baroness Young and the new Chief Executive is Cynthia Bower. FIPO has been in discussion with Baroness Young and she will also be the speaker at a private dinner hosted by the London Consultant’ Association. CQC have now issued their Manifesto and th...

For the first time recognition by an insurer has been linked to a fixed fee schedule. AXA PPP’s new schedule and Terms and Conditions interfere with the contract between patient and consultant… more information

BUPA insurance has announced its intention to purchase the Cromwell Hospital… more information

FIPO has released its Charter for the Independent Sector. Read more…

In August 2007 BUPA Insurance sent out a request for information (RFI) to a certain number of orthopaedic consultants. This RFI was a detailed document which involved information about each consultant’s personal, professional, academic and financial background. For the latest on these developme...

The BUPA Hospital Group has now been sold to a private equity group Cinven for £1.44 billion. Details can be seen here… link to BUPA web site

There has been some concern for several months about the strategy being employed by BUPA Insurance. Some of the professional anxieties were expressed in the News item below (BUPA Insurance Initiatives – March 2006). Since then BUPA Insurance has come out with its detailed plans for an “Approved...