Doctors demand investigation into PMI fee schedules

Having provisionally decided to refer the market to the Competition Commission (CC) for further scrutiny, the OFT is now considering the responses to its consultation on the subject. Since the OFT announced its decision, insurance intermediaries and the Federation of Independent Practitioners Organisations (FIPO), which represents doctors and other clinicians involved in private practice, have called for PMI to be included in the CC's work. They have now been joined by the BMA which represents doctors in all branches of medicine. The Association said it welcomed the decision to ref...