Aid for doctor investors

The Private Healthcare Summit 2017.

By Robin Stride

A consultant has given the Competition and Markets Auth­ority (CMA) a pat on the back for alerting would-be doctor entrepreneurs to the fact they are allowed to invest in private healthcare facilities.

He said that, until the competition watchdog’s 2015 final order arising from its private healthcare investigation, many doctors never realised they could put money into equity participation schemes.