Patients have branded Bupa's strategy to review knee surgery as ‘risking the integrity of the doctor-patient relationship' and ‘not in line with best clinical practice'.
The statement is the latest in a series of disagreements between Bupa and the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) over the insurer's policy to review all patients referred for arthroscopic knee surgery. Bupa has called the process necessary to reduce the rate of referrals it is seeing, which overall is twice that of the NHS and, it claimed, three times greater from some surgeons. This latest development came as the BOA published the results of its Patient Liaison Group held earlier this week. Its statement said: "The Group discussed the Bupa initiative on arthroscopy and expresse...
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