{"id":1016,"date":"2025-12-10T02:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fipo.staging.mysites.io\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2026-03-15T11:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T11:54:58","slug":"phin-agm-promises-clearer-information-for-private-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/phin-agm-promises-clearer-information-for-private-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"PHIN AGM promises clearer information for private healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FIPO attended the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) AGM at which it was reported it is on track to deliver its transparency programme to the satisfaction of the CMA by June 2026.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In simple terms, this means patients will be able to see clear, comparable information about private healthcare \u2014 including consultant fees and key outcomes \u2014 to help them make informed choices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For consultants, PHIN promises both visibility and opportunity. Pricing and selected performance information will be publicly available, the PHIN portal acting potentially as a marketing tool, showcasing their expertise and special interests. Consultants are urged to keep their profiles accurate and up to date.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Looking ahead, PHIN has plans to link private and NHS data to build a fuller picture of patient care across the health system. Used well, this joined-up data could help improve services and outcomes for everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FIPO is monitoring and contributing perspectives to these developments. We attend PHIN\u2019s monthly meetings and regularly raise issues that directly affect consultants, ensuring specialist voices are heard as these transparency measures are put into practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our focus is simple: to support consultants through these changes, promote fairness, and help ensure that information shared with the public is accurate, meaningful, and useful.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIPO attended the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) AGM at which it was reported it is on track to deliver its transparency programme to the satisfaction of the CMA by June 2026. In simple terms, this means patients will be able to see clear, comparable information about private healthcare \u2014 including consultant fees and key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}