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Procurements advertised on or after 1 January 2022 will be subject to new thresholds...

NHS England and NHS Improvement have launched a consultation on changes to the NHS transactions guidance for trusts undertaking transactions...

On Monday evening, the Health and Care Bill was amended to clarify that there can be more than one NHS Trust/Foundation Trust member, primary medical services provider member and local authority member on an integrated care board...

The Health and Social Care Committee has launched a new inquiry to investigate the future of NHS general practice, examining the key challenges facing general practice over the next five years as well as the current and ongoing barriers...

Yesterday (22 November 2021) saw the Health and Care Bill move to the Report stage in the House of Commons, with the final day of the stage coming to a close today. One of the tabled amendments...

With reports of the increasing number of vulnerable children in England being placed in unregulated placements under deprivation of liberty orders, we report on a recent decision...

Regulations requiring compulsory Covid-19 vaccination of care home workers and others entering care settings are now in force...

Delayed by Covid-19, the Government recently published their response to the recommendations of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee’s Inquiry on...

Two days before the end of the grace period for the enforcement of its new vaccination policy in care homes, the Government announced that similar requirements will be imposed across the health and wider care sector in England...

The Government has published its Adult social care Covid-19 winter plan 2021-22 setting out how it aims to support the sector over the coming months...

Integrated Care Systems must take steps to ensure that effective processes have been implemented to identify local capability and capacity of their local independent acute hospitals, says the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch...

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) recently published its interim report into its market study on children's social care provision...