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Maintaining High Professional Standards as an Independent Healthcare Provider: Why External Investigators Matter

Maintaining high professional standards (MHPS) of doctors and dentists within the NHS is vital for patient confidence and improved outcomes, maintaining high quality care provision and increased service efficiency through enhanced communication and regulation compliance. Maintaining these high professional standards not only applies to those within the NHS but also independent healthcare providers (such as […]

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Practising privileges in private healthcare and its uber-style safety

What are practising privileges? A practising privilege is the ‘licence’ agreed between individual medical professionals and a private healthcare provider. In effect, they set out the clinician’s offer, such as the range of surgery they are competent to perform. It is clear that governance of practising privileges is a major risk.   As self-employed contractors,

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The Paterson Inquiry report – what it means for patient safety

What does the Paterson inquiry mean for independent healthcare? The Paterson Inquiry report was a damning indictment of the independent healthcare sector in the UK. The inquiry examined a wide range of accountability and responsibility issues following the conviction of rogue surgeon Ian Paterson for 15 years in 2017, later increased to 20 years, by

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