The CMA Order
In October 2014, the Competition and Markets Authority ("CMA") published the Private Healthcare Market Investigation Order 2014 (the "CMA Order"). The CMA Order requires private hospital operators (such as HCA UK) to disclose on their websites certain information relating to the way the private hospitals interact with referring clinicians; that is a clinician that has practising privileges and/or has the ability to refer patients for treatment or tests at a private hospital.
Full details about the investigation and the Order can be found on the CMA web page: here.
It is important that HCA is transparent about our relationship with doctors and we therefore set out below some of the ways in which we work together.
We would welcome your feedback on the way this information has been presented. Please contact us by email using the link here.
Useful outcome statistics for all private healthcare operators can be found on the Private Healthcare Information Network website at www.phin.org.uk.
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In addition to The Lister Hospital, the disclosure on this page covers the following facilities which are operated by The Lister Hospital:
Services and Partnerships with doctors
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Low-value services icon plus
The following low-value services are provided free-of-charge to referring clinicians with practising privileges at HCA facilities:
- General services to ensure appropriate clinical care (such as in-house training, chaperones)
- Workplace amenities (e.g. free/subsidised tea and coffee including for patients, on-site meals, stationery)
- General marketing (such as general promotional events, consultant directories and internet profiles)
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Secretarial and administrative services:
HCA sometimes employs medical secretaries to liaise with patients, deal with correspondence, make appointments and handle patients’ enquiries on doctors’ behalf. Sometimes, medical secretaries work for more than one doctor. They help to manage complex processes such as payroll, making administration efficient both for doctors and – most importantly – our patients. Medical secretarial services are made available on a non-discriminatory basis and on equivalent terms in accordance with the CMA Order. We charge doctors for using this service at Fair Market Value (FMV).HCA charges the following (exclusive of VAT) for secretarial and administrative services:
Facility Hourly rate charged by HCA (£) The Lister Hospital 17.50 Chelsea Medical Centre Not provided at this facility Sydney Street Outpatients and Diagnostic Centre 17.50 Chelsea Outpatient Centre 17.50 Chiswick Medical Centre Not provided at this facility
Consulting rooms:
HCA UK considers that doctors must be able to see our patients without delay, and in close proximity to our diagnostic and treatment facilities. In order to achieve this, we licence our consulting rooms to doctors at Fair Market Value on an hourly or sessional basis at market rates, which we determine by calculating the rent we pay to landlords plus overheads (including rates, services charges, utilities). Consulting rooms are made available on a non-discriminatory basis and on equivalent terms in accordance with the Order.HCA charges the following (inclusive of VAT) for consulting rooms:
Facility Hourly rate charged by HCA (£) The Lister Hospital 21.00 Chelsea Medical Centre 21.00 Sydney Street Outpatients and Diagnostic Centre 21.00 Chelsea Outpatient Centre 21.00 Chiswick Medical Centre 15.00
Car Parking:
At The Lister Hospital, there are a limited number of parking spaces available for consultants’ use when in clinic. These are allocated on a ‘first come first served’ basis. -
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HCA UK provides general corporate hospitality and social events (such as Christmas parties) for staff and doctors. Such hospitality is proportionate and reasonable and is not provided by HCA UK with the intention of inducing referrals or rewarding the referring clinician for making or having made referrals to HCA UK.
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Some HCA hospitals and facilities operate partnerships with doctors, some of whom may be referring clinicians.
Please see below for more information regarding equity ownership in the following joint ventures with The Lister Hospital.
(All information provided here is regularly reviewed and reflects ownership at 31 December 2020)
Hathor Chelsea LLP (established 2017)Name of referring clinician Financial interest held Hossam Abdalla 5.00% Marie Wren 5.00% Jaya Parikh 5.00% Meen-Yau Thum 5.00% Alison Taylor 5.00% Raef Faris 5.00% James Nicopoullos 5.00% Name of referring clinician Financial interest held Dr B O'Connor 4.00% Mr T Ind 4.00% Dr J Janssen 4.00% Urologists London Ltd (Mr Christopher Ogden and Mr Mike Dineen) 4.00% Dr Eleanor Moskovic 2.00% Dr S Allen 1.00% Imaging Partners Ltd (Dr S Babar) 1.00% Mr G Bantick 1.00% Mr Nick Beechey-Newman 1.00% Dr Martin Benson 1.00% Dr Charles Blakeney 1.00% Bowel Surgeon Ltd (Gordon Buchanan) 1.00% Mr M Dooley 1.00% Dr M Harbord 1.00% Mr J Hardy 1.00% Mr I Holloway 1.00% Mr S James 1.00% Mr A Kontos 1.00% London Urological Surgeons Ltd (Mr B Khoubehi) 1.00% Prof D Leslie 1.00% London Gastrointestinal Centre (Simon Anderson, Matthew Banks, Christopher Chan, Priyajit Prasad, Marcus Reddy) 1.00% Dr Ian Mak 1.00% Dr Maneesh Patel 1.00% Dr Suveer Singh 1.00% Mr James Smellie 1.00% Ms Jeannie Yoon 1.00% Skin Surgery Associates of London Ltd ( Dr Richard Barlow) 1.00% Mr Andy Forester 0.50% Mr Charles Gibbons 0.50% London Rheumatology Ltd (John Axford) 0.50% Chiswick Outpatient Centre LLP (established 2017)
Name of referring clinician Financial interest held West London Neurology Partners Ltd (Dr Alidz Pambakian, Dr Chris Carswell, Dr Maneesh Patel) 3.00% London Paediatricians Ltd (Dr Elia Maalouf & Dr Nida Chammas) 2.90% Mr Stuart James 2.00% Toufan Bahrami Ltd (Mr Toufan Bahrami) 1.50% Dr John Janssen 1.50% Klinke Orthopaedics Ltd (Mr Martin Klinke) 1.50% Mr Pardeep Kumar 1.50% WH Services Ltd (Dr Wajid Hussain) 1.20% Mr Anthony Davies 1.20% Mr Andrew Forester 1.00% London Hand Surgery Ltd (Mr Joseph Perez) 1.00% Professor Howard Branley 1.00% Dermatology London Ltd (Dr Afrina Allam) 0.90% Mediwest Ltd (Dr Cliona O'Connell) 0.80% Beski Womens Care Ltd (Dr Shohreh Beski) 0.80% London Surgical Oncology Ltd (Mr Aamir Khan) 0.80% SZ Tross Ltd (Miss Samantha Tross) 0.80% Paedsurg Ltd (Mr Simon Clarke) 0.80% Mr Ranan Dasgupta 0.80% Anderson Urology Practice Ltd (Mr Chris Anderson) 0.80% Dr Martin Benson 0.70% Dr Mike Chapman 0.60% Dr Matthew Foxton 0.60% Mr Sukhbinder Minhas 0.60% Dr Tabish Saifee 0.50% Shoulder and Elbow London Ltd (Mr Nicholas Ferran) 0.50% Amer Khan Ltd (Mr Amer Khan) 0.50% Mr Giles Bantick 0.50% Professor David Nicol 0.50% Imperial Urology Ltd (Mr Tamer El-Husseiny) 0.50% Dr Tran Seaton 0.40% WL Diagnostics Ltd (Dr Neil Upadhyay) 0.40% Dr Gajen Sunthar Kanaganyagam 0.40% The Heart Chambers Ltd (Dr Piers Clifford) 0.40% Kaprielian Medical Services Ltd (Dr Raffi Kaprielian) 0.40% Ms Romana Kuchai 0.40% Mr Pranav Pandya 0.40% Mr Myles Smith 0.40% London General Surgery Ltd (Mr Bijendra Patel) 0.40% Mr Sanjeev Bassi 0.40% Dr Ali Mearza 0.40% Sportshealing Ltd (Mr Chinmay Gupte) 0.40% London Orthopaedic Partnership (Mr Matthew Sala) 0.40% Mr Reza Mobasheri 0.40% Miss Nishat Rahman 0.40% The Aesthetic Surgeons Ltd (Mr Norman Waterhouse) 0.40% Dr Sonya Abraham 0.40% North West Rheumatology Ltd (Dr Animesh Singh) 0.40% Mr Ken Anson 0.40% -
Referring clinicians who also hold other positions at HCA UK icon plus
A number of doctors provide us with clinical guidance on how to deliver the best possible care to patients and run our hospitals safely and efficiently. We pay those doctors for this service at Fair Market Value (FMV) and we use an independent company to provide assurance around our FMV calculations.
Many of these doctors work at more than one HCA facility. For ease of reference, therefore, you can find more information on any such medical advisory positions (including payments made by HCA to the doctor) on your doctor’s HCA biography webpage.
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