CMA Compliance
Relationship with our Consultants
The Consultants who treat patients at Sana 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 Sana 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.
Sana 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
Sana is a private limited company whose directors, with equal shares, are Luke Anderson and Mario Saldanha. Both consultants also work at Sana and other private hospitals as well as the NHS.
Referring clinicians have no shares in Sana.
Other remuneration
Sana 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
Consultation 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
Sana 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 employed staff
General marketing and promotional activities.