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As part of responses to the current pandemic, authorities may need to urgently procure goods, services and works which in more ordinary times would require a competitive procurement process to be run...

The Bill includes provisions which relate to a wide range of areas, but they are all focussed on responding to the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic...

The Coronavirus Bill 2019-21 has had its first reading, with its second reading on 23 March. So, what changes can be expected for those working with the Mental Health Act?..

The Government's Coronavirus Bill was presented to Parliament today and MPs will next consider the Bill on Monday 23 March. The Bill therefore remains subject to scrutiny and amendment...

The Mental Health Tribunal (MHT) confirmed yesterday that its hearings will continue as planned and, for the present, will still require three panel members to attend those hearings...

The High Court has ruled that where a charity providing counselling services made an oral disclosure to a doctor regarding the wellbeing and mental health of one of its patients, that disclosure was not unlawful under the Data Protection Act 1998...

Last night Sir Simon Stevens and Amanda Pritchard wrote to NHS leaders in all hospital trusts, clinical commissioning groups, general practice and Primary Care Networks and providers of community health services...

As the Government’s strategy to delay the spread of COVID-19 continues to unfurl, we share a few of the answers to the questions the ICO are being asked on data protection issues which will be of interest to healthcare data controllers...

Supreme Court grants permission to appeal in voluntary overtime case. Last week the Supreme Court gave the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust permission to appeal from the Court of Appeal’s ruling that voluntary overtime needed to be included in the calculation of holiday pay for its workers...

Readers will recall the judicial despair recently articulated by Mr Justice Hayden in Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust concerning the delay in bringing the case to court which had serious consequences for the vulnerable person...

The draft standard has been created in collaboration with stakeholders from across the digital health system, consolidating existing industry and health standards...

Safety and learning, improving governance in the private health sector. The next phase of the Acute Data Alignment Programme has been launched by NHS Digital and PHIN (the Private Healthcare Information Network) as part of a consultation aimed at better aligning healthcare data with NHS recorded activity (source: NHS Digital)...