How we work with doctors
at The Wilmslow 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)

  Car parking:
  Some HCA UK facilities have (or have access to) car parking spaces. Where these spaces are made available to doctors, it is on a first-come, first-served basis. Where spaces are made available to staff and/or doctors, HCA does not charge for these.

   

• 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 for secretarial and administrative services:

  Facility	Hourly rate charged by HCA (£)
  HCA UK at The Wilmslow Hospital	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 (exclusive of VAT) for consulting rooms:

  Facility	Hourly rate charged by HCA (£)
  HCA UK at The Wilmslow Hospital	17.50

   
  

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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.

  Since 1 January 2022, this Hospital has hosted the following Events:

  • Medical Advisory Committee annual dinner in October 2022 costing £48 per head.
  • An event for Gynaecology specialists in October 2022 costing £60 per head.
  • An annual Christmas party to which consultants were invited in December 2022 costing £166 per head.

• 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 venture with The Wilmslow.

  Initial shares and units are calculated based upon the capital costs of the equipment, leasehold improvements, provided working capital and other costs necessary to establish the Centre. For shares in established ventures, Fair Market Value is applied and reviewed by external specialists based on historic performance and projections.

  The information here is regularly updated, and in this version is correct at 31 March 2023. Where a doctor’s name or a company name appears in italics, it means that discussions were taking place at the stated date regarding an exit from the investment.

  52 Alderley Road LLP (established 2014):

  Name of referring clinician	Financial interest held
  Sharif Breast Services Ltd (Amir Sharif, Abbas Chitallia)	4.80%
  Richard Johnson	3.20%
  Christie Oncology Imaging LLP (Bernadette Mary Carrington, Claire Nicola Barker)	2.80%
  Vishal Madan	1.60%
  Kokans Ltd (Jalal Kokan)	0.80%
  Sulaiman Anaesthetic Services Ltd (S Lutfi Sulaiman)	0.80%
  Manchester Neurosurgery Ltd (John Leach)	0.80%
  Andrew Dunn Medical Ltd (Andy Dunn)	0.80%
  Say Aun Quah	0.80%
  K & H Akhtar Ltd (Khurshid Akhtar)	0.80%
  Mohammed Waseem	0.80%
  Jarrod Homer Ltd (Jarrod Homer)	0.80%
  Mo Saeed Ltd (Mohammed Saeed)	0.80%
  Manchester Gynaecology Ltd (Richard Slade)	0.40%
  Saqib Chowdhary	0.40%
  RSV Diagnostics Ltd (Naveen Vasireddy)	0.40%
  D J Murray Ltd (David Murray)	0.40%
  Naweed Shahid	0.40%
  Grove Surgical Services Ltd (Simon Lloyd)	0.40%
  Ram Mohan	0.40%
  K Hinduja Ltd (Kunal Hinduja)	0.40%
  D Sandher Ltd (Dilraj Sandher)	0.40%
  RSM Reports Ltd (Randeep Mohil)	0.40%
  Usman Khan	0.40%
  T M Joint Solutions Ltd (Tahir Mahmud)	0.40%
  Waqar Bhatti	0.40%
  Genuine Solutions North West Ltd (Richard Samarji, Pankaj Sharma)	0.40%
  Sumohan Chatterjee	0.40%
  Mohammed Absar	0.40%
  110 Consulting Limited (Nasir Shah)	0.40%
  Lennard Funk	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.