Bupa targets private hospital data transparency

Addressing chief executives of all the UK's private hospitals, the move could be viewed as the first significant attempt to target the private healthcare sector since the Office of Fair Trading announced a review of the market. A letter signed by Dr Andrew Vallance-Owen, group medical director, and Dr Natalie-Jane Macdonald, managing director of Bupa Health and Wellbeing, called on hospitals to be more transparent about their clinical quality metrics by publishing them in the same way the NHS does. They found it hard to understand why the provision of clinical quality metrics remains ...