11 May 2020
Spire Washington has retained its ‘Good’ rating, following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
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Specific information about our relationship with consultants, including key charges made by Spire and any financial interests in Spire held by referring clinicians are set out below.
In October 2014, the Competition and Markets Authority (the "CMA") published the Private Healthcare Market Investigation Order 2014 (the "Order") following its investigation into the private healthcare industry. The Order imposed requirements on private hospital operators to disclose certain information in relation to referring clinicians (as defined by the Order) for the benefit of patients. Full details about the investigation and the Order can be found on the CMA web page. The information provided by Spire Healthcare below is required by the Order.
The services provided at Spire Washington Hospital to referring clinicians and the amounts charged by Spire for those services are set out below:
The following “low-value” services are also provided to referring clinicians with practising privileges at this hospital:
Spire group Medical Advisory Committee (MAC) Chairs conferences are held twice a year, focusing on clinical safety and governance issues. MAC Chairs from all of Spire’s 39 hospitals are invited to attend, with their partners, and are joined by members of Spire’s senior management. In 2017, the conferences were held in Berlin and Aylesbury and the total cost of the events was approximately £85,000 and £25,000 respectively. In 2018, a conference was held in Berlin and the total cost of the event was approximately £88,000. In 2019, the conferences were held in Lisbon and Aylesbury and the total cost of the events was approximately £95,000 and £28,400. MAC Chairs were also invited to attend the Spire Healthcare Senior Management Conference in Birmingham in June 2019 (8 MAC Chairs attended at a cost of £845 per head).
In 2019, Spire Healthcare held a series of 5 dinners with 70 consultants from across 5 Spire hospitals for the purpose of meeting various members of the Spire Executive team and listening to and engaging with consultants. The cost of the dinners ranged from £60 to £80 per head.
Mr Les Irwin is Chair of the Medical Advisory Committee at Spire Washington Hospital. Their role is to provide senior professional advice to the Hospital Director and Director of Clinical Services in order to support effective medical governance and oversight. They are paid £12,000 per annum for this role and are also entitled to receive the following fees for the provision of additional ad hoc services: (i) £750 for chairing a Professional Review Committee; (ii) £500 for each annual medical appraisal undertaken for a doctor designating to Spire for the purposes of revalidation; and (iii) £200 per hour for the preparation of an independent report (up to a maximum of £500 per report) upon request by the Medical Director or Chief Medical Officer.
Corporate hospitality events held by the hospital at no charge to referring clinicians are set out below, together with the cost of providing such events:
2020
MAC
Consultant specialty meetings
Self-pay events
All self-pay events planned by Spire Washington Hospital have been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
GP events
Consultant specialty meetings:
MAC
Self-pay events
GP events
Lunch and Learns
Cricket match hospitality
Annual General Meeting
Consultant specialty meetings:
MAC:
AGM:
Cricket match hospitality
Tall Ships hospitality
Hospital Christmas party:
Staff awards ceremony:
Self-pay health events:
GP Events:
Lunch and Learns
Evening events:
Symposiums
Consultant specialty meetings:
Hospital Christmas party:
MAC:
AGM:
GP Events:
Lunch and Learns:
Evening events:
Symposiums
Consultant specialty meetings:
MAC meetings:
AGM
Corporate hospitality
Durham County Cricket Club tickets for GPs: £99.00 per head
Corporate hospitality
Private hospital operators are required to disclose details of referring clinicians practising at their facilities, who have a share or financial interest in those facilities or any equipment used there. Some clinicians may own shares in Spire Healthcare Group plc, which were acquired either at the admission price or through trading on the main market of the London Stock Exchange. Where a referring clinician has an individual web page profile on this hospital website, relevant shares and/or financial interests are disclosed there. For referring clinicians who do not have an individual profile, their shares and/or financial interests are shown below:
Private hospital operators are required to disclose details of certain paid services provided by referring clinicians to private hospitals operators in addition to exercising practising privileges at that hospital. This information can be found on the referring clinician’s individual web page profile on this hospital website.
11 May 2020
Spire Washington has retained its ‘Good’ rating, following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).