CMA compliance

Compliance with CMA Order 2014

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 and Spire Newcastle Premier Health Clinic to referring clinicians and the amounts charged by Spire for those services are set out below:

Use of consulting rooms: £25 per hour
Medical secretarial services: £16 per hour

The following “low-value” services are also provided to referring clinicians with practising privileges at this hospital:

General services to ensure clinical safety (e.g. in-house training, chaperones)
Operational services such as patient bookings/admissions, administrative services and billing, and insurance/indemnity cover in respect of NHS patients
General marketing support, including production of consultant directories, promotional activities, web profiles etc.
Basic workplace amenities such as teas/coffees/refreshments, subsidised meals, car parking, stationery.

A Spire group Medical Advisory Committee (MAC) Chairs conference was held in February 2016 in Budapest, focusing on clinical safety and governance issues. MAC Chairs from all of Spire’s 38 hospitals were invited to attend, with their partners, and were joined by members of Spire’s senior management. The total cost of the event was approximately £83,800.

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:

Upper Limb Consultant Specialty Meeting: £2.75 per head
General Surgery Consultant Specialty Meeting: £3.25 per head
Annual General Meeting: £142.00 per head
South Africa vs. Scotland RWC match: £150.00 per head
Scotland vs. Samoa RWC Match: £150.00 per head
Urology Consultant Specialty Meeting: £3.00 per head
5th October MAC Quarter 4 meeting: £15.00 per head
Corporate Cricket tickets for GPs at DCCC 24 June 2016: £99.00
Cosmetic Consultant Specialty Meeting 14 June 2016: £6.90

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.