Dr David Walker

Transparency under the CMA Order 2014

 

All private healthcare operators are required under the Competition and Markets Authority Order 2014 (“The CMA Order”) to be transparent about the relationship between their doctor and the private healthcare operator. Therefore, prospective patients should be aware that (in addition to being permitted to consult with and to treat patients at our facilities) this doctor also has an advisory role with HCA UK and is paid by HCA UK for this advisory role. We describe the nature of the role below, and we indicate how much the doctor has been paid for performing the role since 1 January 2023

 

Together with Dr David Howell (and trading as Critical Care London Ltd), Dr Walker provides medical advisory services to HCA UK's The Princess Grace Hospital.

 

In this role, these doctors monitor intensive care outcomes at the Hospital, including providing an audit report to Hospital management. They provide professional advice on clinical governance matters and ensure the doctors are represented at the Governance, Quality and Assurance Board and in mortalilty review committee meetings.

 

They provide professional advice on the management and governance of the intensive care unit at the Hospital, and they draft and maintain a roster for the consultants to provide on-call intensive care services at the Hospital.

 

HCA UK is charged by doctors in return for their expertise and advice, including on how to operate safe hospital facilities delivering complex care. All services provided under this agreement are charged to HCA UK.

 

In 2023 the total paid for these services to Critical Care London Ltd was £66,807.

 

If a doctor provides HCA UK with medical advisory services and also practises in the NHS, HCA UK requires that doctor to attest that he/she is not compromising his/her NHS commitments in so doing.