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Following the Government’s announcement last month that Covid-19 vaccination is to become a condition of deployment for frontline health and care staff, NHS England and NHS Improvement have published guidance and resources...

The recently published Adult Social Care White Paper: People at the Heart of Care has a major focus on using the full potential of technology to support people’s lives and aspirations...

There is a lot of detail in the Adult Social Care Reform White Paper published on 1 December - whether you are in the public or independent sector there are a number of points to note...

The Government’s White Paper sets out its 10-year vision for the future of social care, built around new investments in: housing and home adaptations, technology and digitisation, workforce training and wellbeing support and support for unpaid carers and innovation. These reforms develop the plans that the Government has previously outlined in its policy paper...

Yesterday (7 December 2021) saw the Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act 2018 commence to better protect patients in mental health settings...

The Supreme Court has given its first ever ruling on decision-making capacity of the person but potentially of others to have sexual relations...

The Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal against a decision from the Vice-President, Mr Justice Hayden as it was argued that he used a judicial visit to P in hospital to inform his decision...

Procurements advertised on or after 1 January 2022 will be subject to new thresholds...

NHS England and NHS Improvement have launched a consultation on changes to the NHS transactions guidance for trusts undertaking transactions...

On Monday evening, the Health and Care Bill was amended to clarify that there can be more than one NHS Trust/Foundation Trust member, primary medical services provider member and local authority member on an integrated care board...

The Health and Social Care Committee has launched a new inquiry to investigate the future of NHS general practice, examining the key challenges facing general practice over the next five years as well as the current and ongoing barriers...

Yesterday (22 November 2021) saw the Health and Care Bill move to the Report stage in the House of Commons, with the final day of the stage coming to a close today. One of the tabled amendments...