Consultant Services
Consultant Services
The Edinburgh Clinic Private Day-Case Hospital provides the following services to Consultants and/Referring Clinicians: General services
- Operational services to ensure a smooth patient pathway as part of normal business such as patient admission, administrative and billing
- Insurance and indemnity cover in respect of the treatment of national health service patients
Basic workplace amenities
- Including tea and coffee
- Stationary to the extent that they are available to staff and persons working at the facility generally
- Mail and post-room services to the extent that they are available to staff and persons working at the facility generally
General marketing and promotional services to be able to operate a commercial business, including but not limited to:
- Production of consultant directories
- Production of facility branded business cards and correspondence material
- Production of marketing material and literature, including GP and direct to patient mailers
- Production of advertisements and media placements to promote the services of the business
- GP educational events with a Consultant speaker from The Edinburgh Clinic
- Promotional items including branded post-it notes, pens, mugs
- Open events for patient education with Consultant speakers from The Edinburgh Clinic
General corporate hospitality, proportionate and reasonable to the nature of the business including:
- An annual Consultant Christmas party to the value of £3000
- Two other yearly GP/Consultant social dinners/events to the value of £2500 each
- A quarterly dinner for Medical Advisory Committee Members to the total value of £1000
- Christmas gifts to consultants/GPs to the total value of £1000
- Quarterly sponsorship of local GP Practice Manager meetings to the value of £100 each
Higher-value services
- All Consultants with practicing privileges who use sessional outpatient room space are issued a Consulting Room License. The cost per hour for utilising rooms is £10 per patient at The Edinburgh Clinic, £45 per hour for Medical Legal work at The Edinburgh Clinic
- Where Consultants utilise fixed space within the facility (i.e. not on a sessional basis) this is charged to the Consultant under an Accommodation Agreement at £20/sqft/annum
- All Consultants are offered on an equitable basis access to in-house provided secretarial services. This service is charged out at £25 per hour.