{"id":874,"date":"2023-11-27T18:09:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T18:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fipo.org\/?p=874"},"modified":"2023-11-27T18:12:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T18:12:17","slug":"fipo-position-statement-november-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/2023\/11\/27\/fipo-position-statement-november-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"FIPO Position Statement November 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 14.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #1b1b1b;\">In the light of recent events in the independent healthcare sector, it seemed appropriate to highlight FIPO\u2019s role.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 14.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #1b1b1b;\">FIPO is a federation comprising\u00a0the majority of\u00a0the medical\u00a0professional associations\u00a0in the UK\u00a0with a private practice committee. FIPO is the senior body for specialists providing their medical services within\u00a0the independent sector.\u00a0With our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/FIPO_Patient_Charter.pdf\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Private Patients\u2019 Charter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #1b1b1b;\"> in 2007, we championed the importance of patients having the freedom to choose\u00a0their\u00a0consultant and to have the\u00a0right\u00a0care in the right place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 14.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #1b1b1b;\">Our\u00a0mission\u00a0is\u00a0to preserve\u00a0the\u00a0integrity of the doctor-patient relationship within the\u00a0independent sector. It is vital that\u00a0individual patients seeking medical services are able to benefit from advice and care appropriate to their clinical needs\u00a0without\u00a0hindrance or restrictions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 14.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #1b1b1b;\">\u00a0FIPO\u00a0recognises\u00a0that there are many issues and competing interests emerging,\u00a0but FIPO is not a trade union.\u00a0FIPO\u00a0will always be open to appropriately convened discussions with stakeholders and bodies throughout the sector,\u00a0but it does not\u00a0and cannot\u00a0interfere\u00a0with\u00a0individual contractual arrangements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 14.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #1b1b1b;\">FIPO and its\u00a0Executive work hard in many areas\u00a0on behalf of its member organisations,\u00a0and we rely on our representative Council Members to cascade information about our activities throughout their own membership. Due to\u00a0the breadth of experience of its Chairman and Board Members of working in different capacities throughout the sector,\u00a0FIPO is able to offer support to those facing challenges in their\u00a0independent\u00a0medical practice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the light of recent events in the independent healthcare sector, it seemed appropriate to highlight FIPO\u2019s role. FIPO is a federation comprising\u00a0the majority of\u00a0the medical\u00a0professional associations\u00a0in the UK\u00a0with a private practice committee. FIPO is the senior body for specialists providing their medical services within\u00a0the independent sector.\u00a0With our Private Patients\u2019 Charter in 2007, we championed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":96,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","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\/874","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}