Private hospitals and consultants are threatened with legal action over poor data compliance

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has given a warning to private hospitals and consultants who have made “little or no effort to comply” with their legal obligation to provide information on every episode of care they have undertaken.1Private hospitals and consultants are required to provide information to the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) on how many patients they treat, which consultant performed each treatment, patient feedback and satisfaction survey results, and whether there were any safety incidents.Many hospitals have not been providing this information, however, or their submissions have been below the required standard. In response, CMA has now published an open letter to providers saying it is escalating its public enforcement action.“Those in breach will now be escalated more swiftly to the CMA’s formal enforcement tools,” the letter said. “Hospitals and consultants should be aware that, as well as publishing the names of hospitals and consultants, CMA has…
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