{"id":72694,"date":"2016-07-25T10:36:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T10:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=76fb2ed7cbb423cc53c6ea2335e4208e"},"modified":"2016-07-25T10:36:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T10:36:01","slug":"news-story-court-of-appeal-dismisses-fipo-healthcare-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=72694","title":{"rendered":"News story: Court of Appeal dismisses FIPO healthcare appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Federation of Independent Practitioner Organisations (<abbr title=\"Federation of Independent Practitioner Organisations\">FIPO<\/abbr>) had challenged the Competition and Markets Authority\u2019s (<abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>) finding in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/cma-cases\/private-healthcare-market-investigation#final-report\">final report<\/a> published in April 2014 that there was not an adverse effect on competition arising from the exercise of buyer power by private medical insurers and the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>\u2019s remedy requiring more publicly available information on consultant fees.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2015, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (<abbr title=\"Competition Appeal Tribunal\">CAT<\/abbr>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/cat-dismisses-fipo-healthcare-appeal\">dismissed<\/a> <abbr title=\"Federation of Independent Practitioner Organisations\">FIPO<\/abbr>\u2019s application for review.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"Federation of Independent Practitioner Organisations\">FIPO<\/abbr> subsequently appealed the <abbr title=\"Competition Appeal Tribunal\">CAT<\/abbr>\u2019s decision to the Court of Appeal, which today unanimously dismissed the appeal on all 5 grounds.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2014, the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> appointed the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.phin.org.uk\/\">Private Healthcare Information Network<\/a> to provide independent information for private patients on healthcare performance and fees as required by the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>\u2019s final report.<\/p>\n<p>In light of the Court of Appeal\u2019s judgment today, the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> can now bring the information remedy into effect, which would mean the website carrying information on consultants\u2019 fees along with information on the performance of private hospitals. The implementation of the information remedy had previously been put on hold pending the outcome of <abbr title=\"Federation of Independent Practitioner Organisations\">FIPO<\/abbr>\u2019s appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> is carrying out a remittal on part of the private healthcare final report relating to the healthcare market in central London. Details on the remittal can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/cma-cases\/private-healthcare-market-investigation\">case page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by FIPO in relation to the CMA\u2019s private healthcare investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}