Quote Originally Posted by physiosteo View Post
Now here's an interesting thing.
I have heard a whisper that a Practice - which shall, of course, remain nameless - recently entertained JG at its premises and made a confidential arrangement on (quite high) fees. There seems to have been a successful "pre-tender" in this case.
Has anyone else got wind of this?
If it is true, I wonder about the morality of this..........
Interesting but then BUPA were writing to me in a back and forth discussion about fees right up to the tender process and there was NO mention of the tender process during that correspondence. Should your comment be true to the facts then this does strengthen the position of not tendering and let everyone individually come to an arrangement with BUPA, much the same as it has been for the past yrs.

The tender situation has pretty much stated publically that BUPA no longer values the 5 yrs + post graduation period before registration with them. I wonder if the tender has failed whether they would be able to enforce that on fair trading grounds. Kind of a double standard issue without any justification. Maybe the OFT guys would be interested in any justification of maintaining that 5yrs+ position as well.