Blog archive

Check your facilities now – the Care Quality Commission could take you to court if you don’t! The health care provider at Lewes prison is being made to pay a £200,000 fine following a prosecution brought by the CQC...

Last month CQC published their interim report on segregation in mental health wards for children and young people and in wards for people with a learning disability or autism...

The third annual report of the Learning Disability Mortality Review Programme published in May 2019 provides an update on the learning emerging from this area of work. It gains more significance given the recent Health Service Journal coverage on the amending of LeDeR reports...

The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust and ruled that regularly worked voluntary overtime should be reflected in the calculation of its workers' holiday pay...

NHS England and NHS Improvement launched their consultation on 23 May 2019. The consultation is in connection with guidance for individuals held in prisons and immigration removal centres (IRCs), who have subsequently been detained, subject to the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) and require treatment within mental health in-patient services...

Court of Protection finds financial and care management oversight arrangements for managing a personal health budget in the best interests of a young man...

Inquests following the death of a detained patient will often trigger an Article 2 inquest. This will mean lengthy and difficult court proceedings...

Have you been ‘fiddling’ with your SI investigator’s reports? With the best of intentions - health and care managers often seek to ‘improve’ the conclusions and recommendations made in reports...

Following the 2019/20 GP contract changes, many GP contractors and other community providers will be starting to consider and indeed create Primary Care Networks...

Further light was shed upon the application of the NHS (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015, recently, by the case of R (ota ERA) v (1) Basildon & Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (2) Southend University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2019]...

I am sure none of us would be party to this. But I read this blog (from our colleagues at Serjeants’ Inn Chambers and our friend Bridget Dolan QC) with interest.  It is a timely reminder...

Recent decision provides clarity on the civil standard of proof for suicide conclusions, whether in short or narrative form...