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)
  • Flu jabs as is common practice at healthcare facilities, HCA provides flu jabs in winter at some of our sites. These jabs are available on a first-come, first served basis and doctors are not given priority over HCA staff
  • Consultant OH support in instances where we are concerned about an existing doctor’s fitness to work at our facilities (and with the approval of our Chief Medical Officer), referrals are made to our in-house occupational health team and/or access provided to our employee assistance programme
  • GP Practices - CQC Registration Advice HCA offers advisory services to Primary Care practices (i.e. General Practices) relating to their registration with the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The services are charged by HCA UK under a contract and at a cost which reflects fair market value. Different service levels are available, and the services provided can include assistance with preparation and filing of submissions to the CQC (whether initial registration or maintaining an existing registration); advising and supporting key individuals and assessing readiness for CQC inspection. 

  
  Physician Support Services
  Physician Support Services, part of HCA International Ltd, provides doctors with access to services which support their medical practice. By partnering with third party service providers, Physician Support Services facilitates doctors’ access to services including professional insurance, billing and collections, transcription services and practice management software. Doctors can use Physician Support Services as a one-stop service for outsourcing the non-medical and administrative elements of their practice.

  Basic Life Support Training (BLS)
  HCA UK has allocated a budget that allows us to fund Basic Life Support training courses. The course covers combined Adult & Paediatric Basic Life Support including use of Automated External Defibrillation Foreign Body Airway Obstruction (choking). These courses are run by an external company called A to E Training Solutions, and the cost to HCA UK currently is £570 per course. Typically, these courses have an attendance of six people. These courses are put on for GP practices to support their practice managers and doctors in their Continuing Professional Development (CPD). GP practices are free to approach us to provide this training. Our budget permits this course to run approximately 12 times in any year, and we intend to run a full complement of sessions in 2023.

  Awarding EPIC points
  HCA UK operates an internal reward system by which employees (including doctors that HCA UK employs) can be rewarded with points for meritorious reasons, both ad hoc and (sometimes) as a reward for length of service, birthdays, a milestone work anniversary, or in recognition of service. The recognition system used by HCA UK is known as the EPIC system (EPIC stands for Exceptional People In Care). Points can be redeemed to obtain gifts from a catalogue. These gifts are not lavish; and doctors are not favoured over other staff either in the frequency of awards to them or in the monetary value of these points.

  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. Some car parking spaces are off-site, away from the HCA facility. Occasionally, HCA staff may park a doctor’s car to allow the doctor to begin a clinic on time. HCA does not charge the doctor for this service.

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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).
  
  More details are provided at each hospital’s webpage (with links below on this page). 
  
  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.

  More details are provided at each hospital’s How We Work With Doctors webpage.

  Doctors running clinical trials
  In some cases, doctors running clinical trials involving HCA UK patients and which are running at HCA UK locations may have costs relating to room fee and medical secretarial services met by the sponsor of the trial. (These costs are charged by HCA UK to the doctor at Fair Market Value.) At HCA UK, such trials are normally run by Sarah Cannon Research International.

  Training
  Where appropriate, HCA contributes to the cost of training and professional development of doctors via external training and attendance at medical conferences.
  
  

• 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.

  Since 1 January 2022, HCA UK has hosted the following Events:

  • A Cancer Screening Study Day in October 2023 costing £85.00 for each invited guest.
  • A Women’s Health event in June 2023 costing £93.75 for each invited guest.
  • A Lower Limb Orthopaedic Group dinner in July 2023 costing £18.94 for each invited guest.
  • The HCA Laboratories annual Summer Party in July 2023 costing £209.44 for each invited guest.
  • Lunch and refreshments at the Epsom Derby in June 2023 costing £30.54 for each invited guest.
  • A Hub and Spoke event hosted by Joint Ventures in July 2023 costing £49.00 for each invited guest.
  • A Spine Symposium in June 2023 costing £116.68 for each invited guest.
  • A Hub and Spoke event hosted by Joint Ventures in June 2023 costing £44.57 for each invited guest.
  • A dinner for HCA Laboratories’ clinical advisers in May 2023 costing £162.79 per attendee.
  • HCA's annual meeting in April 2023 costing £79 per invitee.
  • An event hosted by the Primary Care group in February 2023 costing £120 per invitee.
  • A networking event for doctors, allied healthcare professionals and GPs hosted by HCA UK’s Physician Services Group in May 2022 costing £130 per head.
  • Haematology round table for Kuwait Health Office in June 2022 costing £130 per head
  • Hosting a group of doctors at the Epsom Derby in June 2022 costing £56 per head (the doctors paid for their entry tickets)
  • HCA UK Lower Limb Symposium in July 2022 costing £119 per head.
  • A summer party at HCA Laboratories in July 2022 costing £266 per attendee.
  • A Mako Robotics conference in September 2022 costing £154 per head.
  • A pathology consultants meeting at HCA Laboratories in September 2022 costing £132 per head.
  • An Oncology Symposium in October 2022 costing £146 per head.
  • A networking event in November 2022 in preparation for the opening of the Harborne Hospital in Birmingham costing £65 per head.
  • An Upper Limb Symposium in November 2022 costing £141 per head
  • A roundtable discussion for pathologists hosted by Backlogs (part of HCA Laboratories) in December 2022 costing £106 per head.

  (Please check Hospital pages below for details of events hosted by the Hospitals.)

• Equity participation icon plus

  Some HCA hospitals and facilities operate partnerships with doctors, some of whom may be referring clinicians.

  More details are provided at each hospital’s How We Work With Doctors webpage.

  The Princess Grace Hospital, The Wellington Hospital and the London Bridge Hospital are the primary HCA facilities for the following joint venture in which doctors have an equity interest:

  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.

  London Endoscopy Centre Ltd (Established 2021):

  Outpatient diagnostic Endoscopy units. Based at The Wellington Hospital, The Princess Grace Hospital and London Bridge Hospital.

   

  Name of referring clinician	Financial interest held
  Ray Shidrawi	3.00%
  Richard Marley	1.56%
  CF Medical Services Ltd (Guy Chung-Faye)	1.40%
  M George Ltd (Mark George)	1.40%
  Reffitt Associates Ltd (David Reffitt)	1.25%
  John Meenan	1.12%
  Piedmont Professional Ltd (Sean Preston)	1.05%
  James Lindsay	0.95%
  FZR Medical Ltd (Farooq Rahman)	0.70%
  Dr G Santis Ltd (George Santis)	0.70%
  Phillip Harrison	0.60%
  E Carapeti Ltd (Emin Carapeti)	0.50%
  John O'Donohue Ltd (Dr John O'Donohue)	0.40%
  Voi Shim Wong	0.30%
  Martyn Caplin	0.25%
  City Gastroenterology Ltd (Bu'Hussain Hayee)	0.23%
  London Surgical Associates (LSA) Ltd (Auston Obichere)	0.20%
  Humphries Medical Ltd (Adam Humpries)	0.20%
  Michael Chapman	0.15%
  Edward Seward	0.10%
  JS Silver Lining Ltd (Deepak Joshi)	0.10%
  Stuart Bloom Ltd (Stuart Bloom)	0.10%
  Dagitec Ltd (Sebastian Zeki)	0.10%
  Khaled Dawas	0.10%
  Michael Mendall	0.10%
  Al Mutaz Abulafi	0.10%
  SSJ Management Ltd (Mayur Kumar)	0.10%
  Rajab Kerwat	0.10%
  Stephen Pereira	0.10%
  Vivek Datta	0.10%

   

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  The Harley Street Clinic, The London Bridge Hospital and HCA Joint Ventures are the primary HCA facilities for the following joint venture in which doctors have an equity interest:

  London Radiotherapy Centre Ltd (Established 2022):

  Radiotherapy service comprising of four Linac Accelerators based at London Radiotherapy Centre and The Harley Street Clinic.

  Name of referring clinician	Financial interest held
  Kefah Mokbel	1.35%
  London Breast Medical Service Ltd (Christina Choy)	1.35%
  Declan Cahill Ltd (Declan Cahill)	1.35%
  Ray Shidrawi	1.35%
  Richard Marley	1.35%
  Paul Ellis	1.35%
  David Lawrence Consultants Ltd (David Lawrence)	0.97%
  Neill Patani	0.85%
  Mark Harries	0.85%
  Complete Cancer Care Ltd (Hartmut Kristeleit & Rebecca Kristeleit)	0.85%
  Dr S Cleator Ltd (Susan Cleator)	0.76%
  Andrew Tutt	0.68%
  Sibtain Medical Ltd (Amen Sibtain)	0.42%
  KIYU LTD (Mohsin Dani)	0.38%
  MIK Health Limited (George Mikhaeel)	0.38%
  Devalia Consultant Ltd (Haresh Devalia)	0.38%
  London Gynae Cancer Ltd (Rahul Nath)	0.38%
  Oncology Services Ltd (Peter Schmid)	0.32%
  Christopher Chan	0.25%
  Francis Vaz	0.25%
  Keyoumars Ashkan	0.21%
  Sanjeev Bassi	0.20%
  Fharat Raja	0.19%
  Greg Shaw Urology Ltd (Greg Shaw)	0.19%
  Chinmedica Ltd (Francis Chinegwundoh)	0.17%
  Liver Surgery London Ltd (Theodora Pissanou)	0.17%
  Kent Breast Clinic Limited (Abdul Kasem)	0.17%
  VY Surgery Limited (Vincent Yip)	0.17%
  Surgirus Limited (Seema Seetharam)	0.17%
  Ranjeev Bhangoo	0.10%
  Company AKQ Investments Ltd (Asad Qureshi)	0.10%
  Christy Goldsmith	0.10%
  Deborah Enting	0.10%
  Francesco Vergani	0.10%
  Rajesh Nair	0.10%
  Dimitri Hadjiminas	0.10%

   

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  Acquired businesses
  
  HCA International Limited has a controlling interest in the following joint ventures in which the named doctors retain a minority interest in the percentage stated:

  
  

   

  Name	Function	Minority interests
  Palace Gate Practice Limited	GP practice	Dr Paul Wiseman (25%) Dr Brian MacGreevy (5%)
  The London General Practice Limited	GP practice	Dr Paul Ettlinger (30%)
  The Birth Company Limited	Antenatal scanning	Dr Donald Gibb (33%)

• 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.