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Updated Mental Capacity Act factsheet details seven important reasons for all health and social care staff to use the MCA in practice from saving lives to meeting CQC standards to maintaining professional registration...

A new High Court decision reinforces the lack of suitable placements for children and young people requiring therapeutic care within a restrictive environment…

The Chief Coroner has published new guidance on remote hearings and updated guidance on inquests in writing and rule 23 evidence, both key reading material for inquest professionals and health and care organisations managing inquests...

New statutory guidance for Integrated Care Boards, NHS trusts and foundation trusts planning service changes..

The Joint Committee on Human Rights has called for the Government to work with the CQC to ensure there is “stringent oversight” of how care providers implement safeguards to protect the human rights of care users...

The arrival of A plan for digital health and social care is the ninth strategic NHS document to follow the publication of the NHS Data strategy in June 2022...

Building the Right Support Action Plan brings together commitments across government and other public services to ensure there is suitable community support available for people with learning disability and autistic people to live in their own home and have the right support in place to live an ordinary life...

Dr Henrietta Hughes OBE is the newly appointed independent patient safety commissioner for England, helping to drive improvements in safety of medicines and medical devices...

Adult social care providers will be required to provide data in three key areas from 31 July 2022...

The draft Mental Health Bill would make reforms to the identification of which NHS bodies and local authorities were responsible for arranging section 117 after-care services...

Next in our series of blogs on the draft Mental Health Bill, we look at the proposed changes to supervised discharge…

In this third of a series of blogs on the draft Mental Health Bill, we look at some of the proposed that seek to promote patients' autonomy and choice...