23 July 2020 Blog New guidance for visiting arrangements in care homes in England The long awaited guidance for establishing a visiting policy in care homes has now been published (22 July)... Share this article Bookmark this page 2 min read
20 July 2020 Blog The end of the Privacy Shield ... is causing widespread aftershocks for international personal data transfers to the US…and elsewhere! The ruling by the European Court of Justice (CJEU) last week on the Schrems II case is already causing widespread shudders... Share this article Bookmark this page 2 min read
16 July 2020 Blog Liberty Protection Safeguards delayed As many readers will be aware, the Liberty Protection Safeguards (the new regime to replace the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards) were due to come into force on 1 October 2020. However the draft Code of Practice and Regulations are yet to be published... Share this article Bookmark this page 2 min read
15 July 2020 Blog "Misguided paternalism has no place in the Court of Protection": capacity and DoLS in one case The recent case of London Borough of Tower Hamlets v PB concerned a 52-year-old man with a lengthy history of alcohol misuse. He developed alcohol related brain damage and met the criteria for dissocial personality disorder... Share this article Bookmark this page 5 min read
9 July 2020 Blog Covid-19 deaths: scrutiny by medical examiners required New statutory guidance requires NHS trusts and NHS foundations trusts in England to ensure ‘scrutiny’ of deaths of health service and adult social care staff from the coronavirus... Share this article Bookmark this page 2 min read
30 June 2020 Blog Another iteration of the Caldicott Principles coming down the track. Could this help with future local lockdowns? The launch of this consultation is timely. Leicester is set to see an extended lockdown to contain the spread of the virus. But could this have been better managed? Reports in the FT suggest that a delay in sharing Covid-19 test data delayed the city’s response... Share this article Bookmark this page 3 min read
30 June 2020 Blog Ordinary Residence determinations: most unlikely candidate for stirring you from lockdown torpor? In a clutch of recent Ordinary Residence Determinations, the Secretary of State has managed to put the cat well and truly amongst the pigeons by resiling from the Government’s own statutory guidance on the issue of which local authority is responsible for commissioning section 117 aftercare services... Share this article Bookmark this page 5 min read
30 June 2020 Blog NHS Trust commended for pre-emptive application to the Court of Protection The recent case of Re KL (2020) concerned a young lady known as K who required treatment for cervical cancer... Share this article Bookmark this page 3 min read
29 June 2020 Blog Virtual online healthcare consultations: what’s good practice Stuart Knowles shares a few pointers for health and care organisations to consider when operating remote video consultations between clinician and patient... Share this article Bookmark this page 3 min read
29 June 2020 Blog Update: consultation on Mental Health Tribunal reforms Changes to the way the First-tier Tribunal lists hearings in relation to applications by patients detained under section 2 Mental Health Act... Share this article Bookmark this page 3 min read
22 June 2020 Blog Workplace testing for coronavirus: don't skip your data protection With the lockdown being relaxed and employees starting to return to work, there will be concerns both for employers and employees, about the risk of coronavirus contagion within the workplace... Share this article Bookmark this page 1 min read
22 June 2020 Blog CQC's 'back to routine inspections' plan Regulating during COVID. CQC's second insight report. The health and care regulator is to kick-start its routine inspections across England in the autumn with inspectors now scheduling inspections of higher risk services to take place over the summer... Share this article Bookmark this page 4 min read