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Provider collaboratives are set to become a universal feature of the new health and care system in England from July 2022...

Research outlined in a white paper finds that effective engagement among Integrated Care Systems or ICSs with the adult social care sector (ASC) has not been consistent...

December 2021 saw commencement of the Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act 2018 to better protect patients in mental health settings. Final statutory guidance was published following public consultation...

The Care Quality Commission published Out of sight – who cares? report in October 2020, which looked at the use of restraint, seclusion and segregation in care services. They have recently published their second report commenting on the progress achieved so far...

The Department of Health and Social Care and Ministry of Justice has launched its 16-week consultation on a new draft Mental Capacity Code of Practice...

A recent decision from the Employment Appeal Tribunal provides explains why failure to make reasonable adjustments during the dismissal process does not necessarily make the associated dismissal unfair

Two recent employment tribunal decisions illustrate the breadth of the legal definition of harassment...

Whilst data protection obligations have existed for quite some time, it is only in more recent years, since the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (now known as UK GDPR), that data protection has become part of mainstream legal consciousness...

A six month pilot of 4-day working has been launched in the UK...

A more nuanced picture of hybrid working is emerging from the latest data...

Data controllers often have to consider the interaction between the exercise of a data subject’s right to a copy of their data under the UK General Data Protection Regulation and the conduct of litigation involving the data subject...

The Supreme Court has refused an application for permission to appeal in the matter of Bell v Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. The decision reaffirms the principle of Gillick competence...