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Mr Justice MacDonald has recently given judgment on a case involving the withdrawal of life sustaining treatment and strongly held religious beliefs concerning the sanctity of life...

Readers keen to find out more on the timing of the Mental Health Bill and whether it will be introduced in the 2021-22 Parliamentary session will be interested to read the Department of Health and Social Care’s recent response to a written question...

Good safeguarding practice doesn’t happen by accident – and in the same way abuse and exploitation doesn’t end at the age of 18, and yet many of the services for adults are designed to support only those people with ongoing care and support needs...

At the end of May, a Private Member's Bill received its first reading in the House of Lords which sets in motion the first debate on prospective legislation for more than five years...

Care Quality Commission aims for a ‘dynamic and flexible’ approach to regulation. The CQC’s new strategy commits to adopt a more proportionate and risk-based approach to regulation...

The Department of Health and Social Care has published two consultations seeking views on draft guidance in respect of the use of force in mental health units...

The European Parliament has asked the EU Commission to take another look at the UK's data protection adequacy assessment...

In November 2020, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman published a report, Continuing Healthcare: Getting it right first time following a review of 60 CHC cases...

The risk of large backdated claims for statutory holiday pay has been with us for some years. In our latest article, we explain some recent developments which could help employers assess their risk more accurately...

Earlier this year, we held an online webinar looking at the Green Paper on Transforming Public Procurement where we discussed some of the changes proposed to the public procurement regime in the UK...

Last month this three page Position Statement was published for those working in health and care systems. It starts with a reminder of the Triple Aim duty to “deliver high quality care and put quality, including safety, at the forefront of planning an decision making”...

Following the Grenfell disaster in June 2017, many of those with an interest in buildings which contain residential accommodation and which are over 18 metres have been carrying out investigations on their buildings to see if, from a fire safety perspective, they were built in accordance with the Building Regulations in force at the time of construction...