Blog archive

Ahead of the Health and Care Bill entering Committee stage on Tuesday 7 September we discuss the future role of the Care Quality Commission in regulating ICSs – an issue that has yet to be clarified...

With less than 11 weeks left before new government regulations come into force on 11 November 2021 requiring care home staff and visiting professionals entering a CQC registered care home to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, unless they have a specified exemption...

NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE/I) has published a flotilla of guidance documents designed to support Integrated Care System leadership teams establish integrated care boards by 1 April 2022...

Last week (10 August 2021) the Department of Health and Social Care withdrew its emergency Covid-19 guidance on the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and deprivation of liberty safeguards...

The latest judgment concerning Covid-19 vaccination in the Court of Protection has been published...

NHSX’s Records Management Code of Practice 2021 (4 August 2021) provides guidance on how to keep health and care records, including how long to keep different types of records...

The Department of Health and Social Care’s latest factsheet on young people and responsible bodies is the eleventh factsheet published on the new Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) system, which will  be replacing the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards...

A new Schedule 1 to the Public Contracts Regulations (PCRs) 2015 has been published and comes into force on 16 August 2021...

NHS England’s announcement that 25 Integrated Care Board chairs have been appointed to the 42 Integrated Care Systems across the country is a key element in the roadmap of ICS transition to statutory status by April 2022...

Rob Day discusses the successors of Clinical Commissioning Groups and the CCG’s role in forming the new Integrated Care Boards in the second of a series of articles on the new Health and Care Bill...

Life sciences teams will be keen to engage with the NHS and its Integrated Care Systems as the recently published Life Sciences Vision explains that the Health and Care Bill creates specific duties for ICSs in England to promote and support research...

Essential reading for care home operators preparing for mandatory vaccinations rules. The DHSC published on 4 August 2021 its operational guidance to support the implementation of the new regulations making vaccinations mandatory in CQC registered care homes in England...