{"id":232,"date":"2012-05-30T20:18:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T20:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fipo.mysites.io\/?p=232"},"modified":"2025-12-05T10:47:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:47:02","slug":"insurers-overrule-consultants-on-best-treatment-for-patients-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/2012\/05\/30\/insurers-overrule-consultants-on-best-treatment-for-patients-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurers overrule consultants on best treatment for patients"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>&#8220;Insurers overrule consultants on best treatment for patients&#8221;<\/strong>, <em>The Times<\/em> &#8211; 18th November 2019<\/h1>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An interview with FIPO Chair, Mr. Richard Packard<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the 18th November 2019 FIPO&#8217;s Chair, Richard Packard spoke with The Times&#8217; Consumer Affairs Correspondent, Andrew Ellson about the Private Medical Insurers increasing interference with patient choice, referral pathways and relationships with their consultants. This was then followed up with a radio interview on Eamonn Holmes&#8217;s segment on talk RADIO later that day with both Mr. Packard and Mr. Ellson.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/insurers-overrule-consultants-on-best-treatment-for-patients-5g0tdmdvt?shareToken=d06a9504ff322fab7402075a2147b095\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/a> to read the Times article<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Insurers overrule consultants on best treatment for patients&#8221;, The Times &#8211; 18th November 2019 An interview with FIPO Chair, Mr. Richard Packard On the 18th November 2019 FIPO&#8217;s Chair, Richard Packard spoke with The Times&#8217; Consumer Affairs Correspondent, Andrew Ellson about the Private Medical Insurers increasing interference with patient choice, referral pathways and relationships with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hompage","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}