Survey of AAGBI Private Practice Group Members

5. What answer best describes the financial arrangements in your group?

• All full members of the Group share profits equally (equal profit-sharing)
• The profit given to a member of the Group relates to the amount of money earned by the member ("keep what you earn")
• The Group acts as a billing agency for its members
• The Group is an informal collection of anaesthetists who do their own billing
• The Group has other financial arrangments
• Other

7. Does your group insist that all members are recognised for payment by certain Private Medical Insurers (PMIs)?

• Yes
• No

8. Has your Group experienced difficulties in relation to AXA PPP's and Bupa's new restrictive recognition agreements that demand that consultants seeking recognition charge only PMI Benefits?

• Yes
• No

9. Has any consultant been refused entry into your Group because they are not recognised by a particular PMI or a number of PMIs?

• Yes
• No

10. Has your Group refused entry to a consultant because they have signed up to a AXA PPP's or Bupa's restrictive recognition agreements and can therefore command only lower fees?

• Yes
• No

11. What do you think are the effects of the existence of Groups of anaesthetists on patient care, patient choice and price competition? Multiple entries are possible.

• Improves patient care
• Does not affect patient care
• Worsens patient care
• Increases patient choice
• Does not affect patient choice
• Decreases patient choice
• Increases price competition
• Does not affect price competiton
• Decreases Price Competition