The Wellington Hospital

Services and Partnerships with doctors

• 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)

• Higher-value services icon plus

  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 Wellington Hospital	Approx. 17.50
  Elstree Waterfront Outpatients Centre	Approx. 17.50
  Golders Green Outpatient and Diagnostic Centre	Approx. 17.50
  The London Gamma Knife Centre	Approx. 17.50

  
  

  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 (exclusive of VAT) for consulting rooms:

  Facility	Hourly rate charged by HCA (£)
  The Wellington Hospital	Approx. 18.50
  Elstree Waterfront Outpatients Centre	Approx. 12.57
  Golders Green Outpatient and Diagnostic Centre	Approx. 12.57
  The London Gamma Knife Centre	Not provided at this facility

  
  

  Car Parking:
  Car parking spaces are provided at a number of our sites on a first-come, first-served basis.

  Accommodation:

  From time to time we also make available to doctors residential apartments located very close to the hospital. These apartments are made available on an ad hoc basis to those doctors who need to be in very close proximity to the hospital from a patient safety perspective. In such cases we charge doctors a market rate for an overnight stay of c. £75. 

• Events icon plus

  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. 

  At The Wellington Hospital, such hospitality since 1 January 2018 has included:

  • An Annual Party in January 2019 to which we invited staff and doctors. The per head cost for this event was approximately £227.
    

• Equity participation icon plus

  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 Wellington Hospital.

  (All information provided here is regularly reviewed and reflects ownership at 31 December 2019.)

  The London Gamma Knife Centre LLP (established 2018)

   

  Name of referring clinician	Financial interest held
  Prof Paul O'Flynn	1.00%
  Dr Andrew Gaya (AMG Oncology Services Ltd)	0.60%
  Mr Jonathan Pollock	0.60%
  Dr Ron Beaney	0.40%
  Mr Ian Sabin	0.40%
  Dr Dimitris Paraskevopoulos	0.40%
  Mr Michael Wareing (145 ENT Ltd)	0.40%
  Dr Omar Al-Salihi	0.40%

   

  Elstree Outpatients Centre LLP (established 2017)

   

  Name of Referring Clinician	Financial interest held
  LSP Enterprises Ltd (Dr Rick Seah)	2.50%
  Robert Lee Medical Practice Ltd (Robert Lee)	2.50%
  Dr Adam Fox	2.50%
  Capital Spine Ltd (Mr James Allibone)	2.50%
  Michael Fox Medical Ltd (Mr Mike Fox)	2.50%
  Ghei Medicals Ltd (Mr Maneesh Ghei)	2.50%
  Richard Carrington	2.50%
  Prasanthi Ltd (Dr Thillainayagam Muthukumar)	2.50%
  Jag Chana Ltd (Jag Chana)	2.20%
  Spinerad Ltd (Mr Lester Wilson)	2.00%
  One Line Locum.co.uk Ltd (Dr Benjamin Jacobs)	1.80%
  Dr Malcolm Persey	1.50%
  Herodicus (Ademola Adejuwon)	1.50%
  Hanny Anwar	1.40%
  London Plastic Surgery Centre LLP (Mr Ash Mosahebi)	1.10%
  MKW Medical Ltd ( Dr Michael Koa-Wing)	1.00%
  Dr Stephen Till Ltd (Dr Stephen Till)	1.00%
  Shoulder & Elbow Clinic Ltd (Mr Mark Falworth)	1.00%
  Will Aston	1.00%
  Piyusha Kapila	1.00%
  Herts London Cardiology Ltd (Dr Azad Ghuran)	0.50%
  Gastro & Allergy Solutions Ltd (Dr Neil Shah)	0.50%
  Dr Roger Wolman	0.50%
  The Cape Doctor Ltd (Dr Mark Furman)	0.50%
  Nick Cullen	0.50%
  James Donaldson	0.50%
  Cheshire Medical Services Ltd (Tahir Khan)	0.50%
  Asif Muneer	0.50%
  Kia Rezajool	0.50%
  Sarco Media Ltd (Mr Andy Goldberg)	0.50%
  Sinisi Medical Services (Marco Sinisi)	0.50%
  Kellow Health Ltd (Mr Nigel Kellow)	0.50%

  Wellington Diagnostic Services LLC (established 2007)

   

  Name of Referring Clinician	Financial interest held
  Dr David Lipkin	4.93%
  Health Consent (UK) Ltd (trading as JDOC)	2.55%
  Prof BR Davidson	1.59%
  Dr Lee Noimark	1.59%
  Dr Elliot Benjamin	1.59%
  Dr Elizabeth Lightstone	1.51%
  Dr MJP Vanderpump	1.35%
  Mr MC Winslet	1.35%
  Dr PMG Bouloux	1.19%
  Dr PR Jarman	1.19%
  R Wolman	1.19%
  Dr DJ Patel	1.11%
  Prof G Hamilton	1.03%
  Consultant Pain Management Ltd (Dr Anthony Ordman)	0.95%
  R Lloyd Williams Ltd (Lloyd Williams)	0.95%
  London Urology Service Ltd (Leye Ajayi)	0.88%
  Dr MHA Rustin	0.80%
  Dr B Jacobs	0.80%
  Wellington Spine Ltd (Mr B Taylor)	0.80%
  Dr Voi Shim Wong	0.80%
  Dr MW Greenberg	0.72%
  Dr M Furman	0.64%
  Dr DL Economides	0.56%
  Dr JI  Davar	0.56%
  Dr Michael Hanna	0.56%
  Dr Clive Onnie	0.56%
  Mr Gidon Lieberman	0.56%

   

• 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.