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The announcement that HM Treasury will invest £5.9 billion in the NHS to help tackle the elective backlog and transform diagnostic services has been welcomed by Trust leaders. However, concerns about workforce issues and staff shortages...

For many of us working in primary care estates it may not seem that long ago that the LIFT programme commenced...

The health and care regulator has given West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust the maximum fine for breaches of the duty of candour regulation following an incident in October 2018. This is the second time this year that the CQC has fined a trust for failures...

The Joint Committee on Human Rights is investigating human rights concerns of patients, older people and others living with long-term disabilities...

The Department of Health and Social Care is seeking views on extending the provision of free personal protective equipment (PPE) to the sector beyond 1 April 2022 when this central, free provision comes to an end...

On 22 October 2021 CQC published their annual State of Health Care and Social Care in England...

A recent decision from the Court of Protection concerning decisions about contact restrictions and marriage...

The news that a care home group (Aster Healthcare Ltd) has been convicted of corporate manslaughter and fined £1.04million will serve as a salutary reminder to care home providers...

The Department of Health and Social Care has this week (19 October 2021) updated its operational guidance on the vaccination of people working or deployed in care homes. It was first published on 4 August 2021...

In a new decision, the Court of Protection has ruled invalid an advance decision made in 2001 by a Jehovah's Witness concerning the refusal of blood or blood products. This case will be of interest...

The Department of Health and Social Care’s latest guidance sets out how care home staff working in a CQC registered care home can apply for official proof that, for medical reasons, they are unable to be vaccinated for Covid-19...

Last month (30 September 2021) saw the Government's Procurement Policy Note PPN 06/21 on taking account of carbon reduction plans in procurement come into force...