Relationship with insurers improves

By Robin Stride

The IDF’s Specialists’ Committee chairman has vowed to make every effort to keep consultants well informed about upcoming changes so they can make the most of new opportunities.

Dr Sean Preston said private medicine’s landscape was showing a lot of uncertainty. It could be unrecognisable in two years’ time – but that also offered the chance for specialists to benefit.

Dr Sean Preston, chairman of the IDF’s Specialists’ Committee

He reported relationships with the private medical insurers were ‘in a better place’, away from the nadir of ‘open referrals’.