GovWire

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)s Private Healthcare Market Investigation Order 2014 includes measures to increase the availability of information to patients on both consultant fees and the performance of consultants and private hospitals. To achieve this, private hospitals and consultants are required to provide information to the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN).

This letter:

• thanks the thousands of private consultants and hundreds of private hospitals who are providing the information required under the Order
• provides an update on public enforcement against private hospitals who have breached the Order
• warns those hospitals and consultants who have made little or no effort to comply that the CMA is escalating its public enforcement action