Blog archive

In our continuing series of blogs on the recently published Integration White Paper, we look at the health and care workforce proposals. The White Paper finally shows the part that the workforce can play while emphasising that it is our ‘biggest asset’ and central to delivering integrated care...

Next in our series of blogs on the integration white paper, we look at the financial frameworks and incentives (section three of the paper) in place to facilitate integration of health and care services at place level...

The LPS policy team at the Department of Health and Social Care has confirmed in its March 2022 update that it expects to launch the public consultation on LPS ‘very soon’...

An important point, and one for those in the field of inquests, particularly as the Northern Ireland High Court found in the matter of Downey involving concerns of coronial bias...

From the end of March 2023, NHS and social care organisations will need to be compliant with NHS Digital’s new Information Standard designed to support reduced medication errors and improve patient safety...

On 1 March the Government confirmed that, following public consultation, it intends to proceed with bringing forward regulations to revoke vaccination as a condition of deployment. The regulations will come into force on 15 March ahead of the 1 April deadline when regulations extending the requirement to health and the wider social care were due to come into force...

Seni's law formally known as the Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act 2018 comes into force on 31 March, with the aim of increasing protections and oversights on use of force in mental health settings...

All healthcare professionals dealing with capacity issues will have a duty to comply with the statutory Codes of Practice that support the Mental Capacity Act 2005. There are two Codes, one supporting the MCA and the other for Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. Both have become out of date since their initial publication in 2007 and 2009 respectively...

Following the publication of the Integration White Paper, we look at the proposals on regulation and oversight of the ICS landscape...

The Department of Health and Social Care has launched its consultation on the proposals for regulations to support the new Provider Selection Regime...

The Integration White Paper proposals on digital and data driven health and social care...

The Government’s White Paper Joining up care for people, places and population (9 February 2022) was first announced in July 2021 alongside the Health and Care Bill...