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Circle Health Group is a private healthcare provider in the United Kingdom, and is the country's biggest private hospital provider. [3] The company was founded in 2004 and rebranded as Circle Health Group in 2019 after acquiring a rival, BMI Healthcare ; in the same year it began an expansion in China. [ 4 ]
BMI Healthcare was an independent provider of private healthcare, offering treatment to private patients, medically insured patients, and NHS patients. As of 2019, it had 54 private hospitals and healthcare facilities across the UK, with headquarters in London. [4]
The Meriden Hospital is a private hospital run by Circle Health. [1] It is situated adjacent to the University Hospital Coventry , Walsgrave , Coventry , England. History
The Access to Health Records Act 1990 gave them the right to inspect their own records. The Data Protection Act 1998 and the Data Protection Act 2018 apply to medical records as to other records. Only 3% of GPs in England offered online record access in October 2014 to patients although all of them were expected to by April 2015. [3]
The Health and Care Act 2022 put these systems on a statutory basis, each with an approved constitution. On 1 July 2022, a total of 42 ICSs became statutory. There are more than 70 performance metrics by which they are judged, grouped into six "oversight themes": quality, access and outcomes, preventing ill health and reducing inequalities, leadership, people, and finances.
In January 2015 Hinchingbrooke was said to be the second least efficient hospital in England, according to Lord Carter's review of NHS efficiency, with potential savings that could have been made of £20.5 million a year. [27] Circle Health handed the management of the hospital back to the NHS on 31 March 2015. [28]
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In 2019 only 10% of NHS trusts claimed to be fully digitised. The NHS Long Term Plan requires all hospitals to move to digital records by 2023, so clinicians can access and interact with patient records and care plans wherever they are. As of 2019, 62% of trusts have plans to digitise all their patient records.