Blog archive

In our latest blog we are going to look at Chapter 7 of the White Paper. Mental Health Act or Mental Capacity Act?..

For some, it is 12 steps that stand between them and hope for the future. For Sophie Basma it was a mere five. Sophie is 10 years old and has Type 3 Spinal Muscular Atrophy, a rare neuro-muscular disease which leads progressively to an inability to walk or sit unaided...

The Cabinet Office has published PPN 01/21 which will be of interest to organisations responding to the coronavirus pandemic...

In our series on the NHS White Paper, we have covered a number of the key legislative proposals for a Health and Care Bill outlined in the Department of Health and Social Care’s Integration and Innovation: working together to improve health and social care for all...

Continuing with our commentary on the NHS White Paper, Rhian Vandrill considers the ICS proposals and highlights six standout issues in a recent article...

Next in our series of blogs on the NHS White Paper we review new proposals on safety and quality. Annex A of the White Paper sets out four themes one of which is called (rather uninspiringly and without giving much away) “Additional Proposals”...

This next in our series of blogs on the NHS White Paper we focus on the new proposals around discharging patients...

In the first of series of blogs on the NHS White Paper, we consider the new proposals for service reconfigurations...

This next in our series of blogs on the White Paper focuses on CTOs...

In this our fourth blog on Reforming the Mental Health Act White Paper, here we look at some of the proposals around treatment...

The European Commission has now published draft data adequacy decisions for transfers of personal data to the UK, under the General Data Protection Regulation and the Law Enforcement Directive...

In a new Court of Protection decision, the second on the issue of Covid-19 vaccinations, Mr Justice Hayden returns to the subject to provide a reminder of the importance of upholding a person’s wishes and feelings...