Blog archive

As from 1 July, a wider range of health professionals have been able to issue fit notes...

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...

These week there have been two more important rulings about protected beliefs...

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...

NHS England has updated its hospital discharge and community support guidance to reflect the changes introduced by the Health and Care Act 2022 which came into force on 1 July 2022...

The Information Commissioner’s Office has set out a new approach to working with public authorities, focusing on raising data protection standards and sharing good practice while reducing the impact of fines...

New updated Who Pays? guidance is key reading material for the newly formed Integrated Care Boards who now have responsibility for the commissioning functions previously held by CCGs. The updated guidance takes effect from 1 July 2022...

The EAT's latest ruling on gender critical beliefs...

The UK IPO has issued a response to its recent consultation on what changes, if any, are required to make intellectual property law work well for new technologies, such as AI. A change to the exemption for text and data mining is proposed.

As part of the development of ICSs, NHS England has launched a six week consultation on draft guidance supporting NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts to work effectively within systems...

Today (1 July 2022) 42 Integrated Care Boards across England will be established under the Health and Care Act 2022....