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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...

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

From 1 July 2022, CQC registered health and care providers will be required to ensure that all staff receive training in how to interact appropriately with people who have a learning disability and autistic people, appropriate to their role...

The draft Mental Health Bill published on 27 June 2022 will amend the Mental Health Act 1983 and modernise mental health legislation in England and Wales...

The CQC has updated its duty of candour guidance making changes to clarify how registered providers of health and care should apply the term “unexpected or unintended” to decide if something qualifies as a ‘notifiable safety incident’ or not...

The Department of Health and Social Care's final version of the NHS’s data strategy, Data saves lives is the clearest articulation of how the Department intends to ensure that data will be used to improve the health and care of the population...

The shortage of learning disability nurses is impacting the quality of patient care an investigation has revealed...

New regulations set out the list of people that are exceptions to the group of people for whom an Integrated Care Board will ordinarily have core responsibility...