The organisation has sections dealing with both Wales and Scotland and hosts the Independent Sector Complaints Adjudication Service.
[3] The association acted to defend its members during the investigation by the Competition Commission in 2013 which ended in a decision that HCA must sell two of its hospitals in central London, and BMI Healthcare was to divest from seven of its hospitals, in order to improve competition in the private healthcare market.
[4] Booth also responded to an article on "Patient safety in private hospitals - the known and the unknown risks" by Colin Leys published by the Centre for Health and the Public Interest.
Inspections of independent hospitals are no less rigorous than those of NHS institutions"[6] She made the same point when the Royal College of Surgeons called for a serious review of the private sector in the wake of the conviction of Ian Paterson.
She said also that the association was "working with national bodies to look at ways in which the sector can be further involved in the collection of best data on clinical standards".