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BUPA, Britain’s biggest medical insurer, has declared war on surgeons who charge too much and are not as good as they think they are.
It plans to set up networks of approved surgeons, first in ophthalmology and later in orthopaedics and ear nose and throat surgery, have angered surgeons, the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.
But BUPA, which has more than three million members in the UK and a 40 per cent share of the market, has rejected the objections. It said that its own research revealed huge variations in the price and quality of eye operations carried out in private hospitals by surgeons who also work in the NHS.
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