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CMA Compliance

Relationship with our Consultants

The Consultants who treat patients at St Joseph’s Hospital do so having been granted Practicing Privileges and they practice their specialities in accordance with the hospital’s terms.

None of the consultants are employed by St Joseph’s Hospital since they are self-employed practitioners.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) recently issued an Order regulating the relationships between private hospitals and consultants who treat private patients or refer them for tests at the hospitals facilities (so-called “Referring Clinicians”). In accordance with this Order, hospitals and referring clinicians are prohibited from entering into any incentive schemes that are designed to encourage consultants to refer private patients to, or treat private patients at, the hospitals.

St Joseph’s Hospital does not operate any such schemes with referring clinicians.
In addition, the CMA requires hospital operators to disclose certain information about arrangements they have with referring clinicians. These arrangements include: ownership interests in the operator; the provision of certain “high value” facilities to referring clinicians; the availability of “low value” basic amenities for referring clinicians; and any remuneration for services provided by referring clinicians to the hospital. This information applies specifically to consultants who are not hospital employees and who have the ability to refer privately insured or self-paying patients for treatment or tests at the hospital.

Set out below is information about the arrangements we have with our referring clinicians.

Ownership interests

St Joseph’s Hospital is owned in partnership with a number of its referring clinicians.

Referring clinicians generally hold B & C shares which rank equally with all other shares.

Title First name Surname % ownership
Dr Philip Campbell 0.64
Mr Aled Evans 1.42
Mr Andrew Rogers 2.18
Mr Chris Bates 0.42
Mr Ash Khurana 0.03
Mr Brian Stephenson 0.30
Mr Greg Jones 1.39
Mr Hemang Mehta 0.51
Mr Huw Pullen 0.39
Dr Ishan Gunatunga 0.29
Mr James Cordell-Smith 0.79
Mr Kartik Hariharan 4.57
Mr Mark Lewis 1.27
Mr Michael Thomas 0.45
Dr Patrick Flood-Page 0.45
Mr Phillip Alderman 0.85
Mr Simon Hannaford-Youngs 0.15
Dr Sukhdev Singh 0.36
Mr Vasudev Shanbhag 0.05
Dr Victor Francis 0.62
Mr Wayne Williams 1.51
Mr John Lloyd 0.03

Other remuneration

St Joseph’s does not reimburse in general for services that they provide to the hospital, such as membership of Advisory Boards in the areas of Infection Control and Governance.

Facilities

Below is a list of the facilities we make available to Referring Clinicians and the rates we charge for their use. 

The following facilities are provided to Referring Clinicians at the rates set out below:

  • Referring Clinicians are able to book Consulting Rooms at a set cost
  • Consultating rooms are available on a first come, first served basis with no prioritisation 
  • Referring Clinicians are supported by nursing staff when they use Consulting Rooms without charge.

Basic amenities

St Joseph’s Hospital provides Referring Clinicians with the following basic amenities:

  • In-house training programmes from time to time to promote clinical and operational safety
  • Patient admission, billing, and related administrative services
  • Refreshments, stationery, and parking are made available to the same extent as to emplyed staff
  • General marketing and promotional activities.

Human Rights and Modern Slavery Policy

St Joseph’s Hospital considers violations of human rights to be appalling crimes. Conduct that exploits workers or denies them the rights and benefits to which they are legally entitled is wholly inconsistent with St Joseph’s Hospital values and policies and will not be tolerated.

St Joseph’s Hospital is committed to operating to the highest ethical standards. This includes ensuring its operations, suppliers, contractors, subcontractors and anyone else in its supply chain, including any recruitment agents or other providers of labour (temporary or otherwise) (collectively “recruitment agents”) share our commitment to human rights and are free from practices associated with human rights violations.

This policy applies to all persons working for St Joseph’s Hospital or on St Joseph’s Hospitals’ behalf, including employees, agency workers, bank workers, volunteers, interns, contractors, and third-party representatives (referred to in this policy as Staff).

St Joseph’s Hospital’ Staff must report any actual or potential breach of the policy whether that breach is by St Joseph’s Hospital or by a third party. The report should be made either to your line manager or to HR. St Joseph’s Hospital shall also operate an effective grievance procedure to ensure that Staff can submit a grievance without suffering any prejudice or retaliation of any kind. 

This policy encompasses the following practices that protect Human Rights of Staff:

  1. Elimination of Forced/Involuntary Labour
  2. Elimination of Child Labour
  3. Humane treatment in the workplace
  4. Workplace equality / elimination of bias
  5. Right to a living wage
  6. Right to reasonable working hours and vacation
  7. Freedom of Association
  8. Safe and healthy work place
  9. Safe and healthy accommodations, if accommodations are provided for employees

Review of Procedure

This policy will be reviewed regularly to see if it needs to be updated and to ensure compliance with statutory requirements. Any queries or comments regarding this policy should be addressed to the Executive Directors or the Human Resources Representative.

Carbon Reduction Plan

Below is our Carbon Reduction Plan for Autumn 2022.

Carbon Reduction Plan

Arrange a visit

We invite GPs and other healthcare referrers to visit the hospital to view the facilities and meet the team. Please get in touch to arrange.

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