Blog archive

NHS England’s announcement that 25 Integrated Care Board chairs have been appointed to the 42 Integrated Care Systems across the country is a key element in the roadmap of ICS transition to statutory status by April 2022...

Collateral warranties are often provided in the construction industry. They give a party a contractual right where none would otherwise exist...

A new schedule 1 to the Public Contract Regulations 2015 comes into force on 16 August 2021...

Last week, the UK government announced its Decarbonising Transport plan...

In the aftermath of the Grenfell Tragedy, the government introduced a raft of proposals and measures to address both the issue of cladding as well as other fire safety issues...

Rob Day discusses the successors of Clinical Commissioning Groups and the CCG’s role in forming the new Integrated Care Boards in the second of a series of articles on the new Health and Care Bill...

Life sciences teams will be keen to engage with the NHS and its Integrated Care Systems as the recently published Life Sciences Vision explains that the Health and Care Bill creates specific duties for ICSs in England to promote and support research...

Essential reading for care home operators preparing for mandatory vaccinations rules. The DHSC published on 4 August 2021 its operational guidance to support the implementation of the new regulations making vaccinations mandatory in CQC registered care homes in England...

Operational guidance for the vaccination of people working or deployed in care homes was published on 4 August...

We live and work in a world which is facing more change than perhaps ever faced before, leading to the proliferation of phrases such as the new normal; flexibility; adaptability and agility...

The Charity Commission yesterday updated its coronavirus guidance to signal what seems to be the beginning of the end to the benevolent approach it has taken to charities needing to postpone or cancel meetings, or hold them remotely, during the pandemic....

The Department of Health and Social Care has published its response to the CQC’s Out of sight – who cares? report which reviewed the use of  restraint, seclusion and segregation in care services for autistic people and people with a learning disability and/or mental health condition...