Interface between NHS and private treatment
Guidance from the Ethics Department
February 2004
References
1. British Medical Association Central Consultants and Specialists Committee, Department of Health. A code of conduct for private practice. Recommended standards of practice for NHS consultants. London: DH, 2003. Read more here.
2. Code of conduct for private practice: recommended standards for NHS consultants. In: Consultant Contract for Scotland 2003: Appendix 8.
3. British Medical Association (NI) Northern Ireland Consultants and Specialists Committee, Department of Health, Society Services and Public Safety for Consultants In Northern Ireland. A code of conduct for private practice. Recommended standards of practice for HPSS consultants. Belfast: DHSSPS, 2003. Read more here.
4. Private practice. In: Amendment to the National Consultant Contract in Wales. 2003: chapter 9.
5. British Medical Association Central Consultants and Specialists Committee, Department of Health. A code of conduct for private practice. Recommended standards of practice for NHS consultants. Op cit: para 2.13; Code of conduct for private practice: recommended standards for NHS consultants. In: Consultant Contract for Scotland 2003. Op cit: para 2.13; Private practice. In Amendment to the National Consultant Contract in Wales; Op cit: para 9.12. British Medical Association (NI) Northern Ireland Consultants and Specialists Committee, Department of Health, Society Services and Public Safety for Consultants In Northern Ireland. A code of conduct for private practice. Recommended standards of practice for HPSS consultants Op cit: para 2.13. Read more here.
6. British Medical Association Central Consultants and Specialists Committee, Department of Health. A code of conduct for private practice. Recommended standards of practice for NHS consultants. Op cit: para 2.9; Code of conduct for private practice: recommended standards for NHS consultants. In: Consultant Contract for Scotland 2003. Op cit: para 2.9; British Medical Association (NI) Northern Ireland Consultants and Specialists Committee, Department of Health, Society Services and Public Safety for Consultants In Northern Ireland. A code of conduct for private practice. Recommended standards of practice for HPSS consultants Op cit: para 2.9. Read more here.
7. British Medical Association. Duty of candour? Truth telling and rationing of resources. London: BMA, 1997. Read more here.
8. BMA Central Consultants and Specialists Committee (CCSC). Patients requesting a second opinion. London: BMA, 2002. Read more here.
9. British Medical Association Central Consultants and Specialists Committee, Department of Health. A code of conduct for private practice. Recommended standards of practice for NHS consultants. Op cit: para 3.7; Code of conduct for private practice: recommended standards for NHS consultants. In: Consultant Contract for Scotland 2003. Op cit: para 3.7; Private practice. In: Amendment to the National Consultant Contract in Wales. Op cit: para 9.14; British Medical Association (NI) Northern Ireland Consultants and Specialists Committee, Department of Health, Society Services and Public Safety for Consultants In Northern Ireland. A code of conduct for private practice. Recommended standards of practice for HPSS consultants Op cit: para 3.7.
10. General Medical Council. Good medical practice. London: GMC, 2001: para 44.
11. Ibid: para 45.
12. Ibid: para 3
13. British Medical Association Ethics Department. Medical Ethics Today. The BMA’s handbook of ethics and law, 2nd ed. London: BMJ Publishing Group, 2004:472-477. Read more here.
14. R (on the application of Yvonne Watts) v (1) Bedford Primary Care Trust (2) Secretary of State for Health [2003] EWHC 2228 (Admin).
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid: para 143.
17. Ibid: para 174.
18. Department of Health. Getting treatment in countries in the European Economic Area. In: Department of Health. Health advice for travellers. London: DH, 2000. (This guidance was criticised in the court case referred to in the text for its lack of clarity and the Department of Health has stated its intention to revise the guidance.)
19. Department of Health and Social Security. Management of private practice in health service hospitals in England and Wales (“the Green Book”). London: DHSS1986: para 21. The BMA has been informed by the Scottish Executive that the same principle would apply in Scotland.
20. General Medical Council. Good medical practice. Op cit: paras 48-50.