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The Government's new Health and Care Bill is the first major piece of primary legislation since the Health and Social Care Act 2012...

As the UK begins its walk towards Freedom Day, more business as usual is returning to the House of Commons...

Following the Grenfell disaster in June 2017, many of those with an interest in multi-storey, multi-occupied, residential buildings over 18 metres in height have been carrying out investigations on their buildings to ascertain if...

Rebecca Pallot walks through the key points from NHS England and NHS Improvement’s recently published guidance document on supporting the NHS workforce throughout the development and transition towards statutory Integrated Care Systems...

A contract notice worth £10 billion to provide services at community diagnostic hubs has been published by NHS England and NHS Improvement...

The CQC has published the Emerging Concerns Protocol developed under the governance of the Health and Social Care Regulators' Forum...

Last month saw the regulator announce changes to how it regulates services before rolling these out across services from July...

The LPS policy team at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) published on 25 June 2021 an update on current developments. In this blog, we look at what’s new...

Earlier this month the Law Commission published a discussion paper and launched a consultation on corporate criminal liability...

Health leaders can breathe a sigh of relief as EU Member states have voted to approve the adequacy decision on the UK data protection regime which provides legal certainty for patients and the sector...

The strategy called Data saves lives: reshaping health and social care with data sets out the Secretary of State’s vision for how data will be used to improve the health and care of the population in a ‘safe, trusted and transparent’ way...

In a recent decision of the Court of Protection, Mrs Justice Lieven has expressed the court’s frustration with last minute applications  - in this case for a caesarean section – and stressed the need for them to be made significantly earlier in the process than seems to be happening currently...