Patients have been dragged into a dispute between Bupa and hospital group BMI Healthcare.
Bupa has instructed its lawyers after private hospital group BMI Healthcare sent a letter Bupa described as "misleading, defamatory and false" to patients currently under treatment. Bupa plans to cut ties to individual hospitals within hospital groups and to assess the value of private hospitals on an individual basis, refusing business to some in high capacity areas or with high pricing models. In retaliation BMI has sent a letter to patients using the 12 of its hospitals Bupa has targeted as too expensive, saying the move was: "Part of an on going Bupa initiative to direct patients ...
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