More than 40 hospitals have been identified by the competition regulator as breaching requirements to provide information on their private health treatments.
Each member of the cohort has been given an action plan to fulfil the regulator’s demands which mean they must share details about the quality of their private treatment with the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN).
The move is part of the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) increased enforcement of the Private Healthcare Market Investigation Order 2014, which followed the review into the sector.
“The action plans show the steps the hospitals will take to achieve compliance under the order,” the CMA said.
“The order requires hospitals to publish data to the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) to allow consumers to make informed choices.”
Enforcement action warning
In October 2022 the CMA threatened to take enforcement action on private hospitals and doctors not supplying data about the quality of care they are providing.
The warning was issued alongside an open letter to the private healthcare industry highlighting there were still consultants and hospitals who had made little or no effort to comply with legally-binding obligations in supplying data.
Then in April 2023 it publicly warned the Ulster Independent Clinic and Fortius Clinic about not providing data on performance and patient outcomes and threatened them with regulatory enforcement if they fail to meet a six-month deadline to do so.
Of the latest 41 hospitals to be identified by the CMA, more than 30 are NHS hospital trusts.
The full list of hospitals published is:
- 152 Harley Street
- ASET Hospital
- Bedford Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Best Life Clinic
- Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
- Epsomedical
- Gloucester Hospital
- Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- La Belle Forme
- London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
- Maidstone And Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
- Mallucci London
- Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Mersey and West Lancs (Formerly St Helens and Knowsley) Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Newmedica
- Norfolk And Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Optegra
- Orthopaedics And Spine Specialist Hospital
- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust Hadley Wood
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust (Royal Free Hospital)
- Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
- Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
- South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
- Tyneside Surgical Services
- University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
- University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
- University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
- University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
- University Hospitals Dorset (Formerly The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals) NHS Foundation Trust