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It has been a while, but the EU Clinical Trials Information System (CTIS) is set to go live on 31 January 2022. This means that the system set up in 2014 under the Clinical Trials Regulation will finally come into effect.

Two recent employment tribunal decisions have shed light on the way employers are expected to approach redundancy dismissals during the currency of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme...

Last week's publication by the Charity Commission of a summary of the responses received from charities, umbrella bodies and professionals to its recent draft guidance on “responsible investment" confirmed that charities are going to have to wait until next year at least for its finalised guidance...

NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE/I) has published a flotilla of guidance documents designed to support Integrated Care System leadership teams establish integrated care boards by 1 April 2022...

Charities that have been grappling with the implementation of hybrid working for their employees may find ACAS’s recently published practical guidance for employers on hybrid working helpful...

Last week (10 August 2021) the Department of Health and Social Care withdrew its emergency Covid-19 guidance on the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and deprivation of liberty safeguards...

The latest judgment concerning Covid-19 vaccination in the Court of Protection has been published...

NHSX’s Records Management Code of Practice 2021 (4 August 2021) provides guidance on how to keep health and care records, including how long to keep different types of records...

Much of the care home sector is a mix of NHS and private providers, but there is also a small but significant number of charitable care homes regulated by the CQC...

Not all charities are subject to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (the “Regulations”), but those which are may want to know about the latest in a series of changes made to the Regulations in spring / summer this year...

The Department of Health and Social Care’s latest factsheet on young people and responsible bodies is the eleventh factsheet published on the new Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) system, which will  be replacing the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards...

A new Schedule 1 to the Public Contracts Regulations (PCRs) 2015 has been published and comes into force on 16 August 2021...