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...

The major news in the Independent Sector is the new strategy by BUPA Insurance of which is encompassed in its “ BUPA Insurance Initiatives”. If fully implemented these would lead, in the opinion of many, to a Managed Care scenario in the Independent Sector and a complete change in the whole p...

8th February 2006 in the Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum, London. Over 50 consultants from MACs and specialist organisations attended this Council meeting. Reports on this meeting have been circulated to subscribing members. There was considerable concern expressed about developments in pr...

The FIPO Board has been modified with an expanded group to take account of the increased membership of FIPO. Both the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland and Society of British Neurological Surgeons have agreed to join FIPO and will propose a representative to sit on the FIPO Boa...