POSTED BY JILL MASON | 29 JULY 2020 Watchdog launches consultation on an NHS ‘Complaint Standards Framework’ The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) has presented a report, called Making Complaints Count, to Parliament describing the NHS complaints system in “urgent need of reform and investment”... Read more Share this article Bookmark this page 3 min read Commissioning Governance and board issues Patient care Primary care Regulation
POSTED BY JOG HUNDLE | 26 JULY 2020 Response to consultation on public sector exit payments cap published The Government has published its response to last year’s consultation on implementing the public sector exit payment cap... Share this article Bookmark this page 2 min read
POSTED BY TANIA RICHARDS | 22 JULY 2020 New guidance for visiting arrangements in care homes in England The long awaited guidance for establishing a visiting policy in care homes has now been published (22 July)... Share this article Bookmark this page 2 min read
POSTED BY TANIA RICHARDS | 20 JULY 2020 The end of the Privacy Shield ... is causing widespread aftershocks for international personal data transfers to the US…and elsewhere! The ruling by the European Court of Justice (CJEU) last week on the Schrems II case is already causing widespread shudders... Share this article Bookmark this page 2 min read
POSTED BY TANIA RICHARDS | 15 JULY 2020 Liberty Protection Safeguards delayed As many readers will be aware, the Liberty Protection Safeguards (the new regime to replace the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards) were due to come into force on 1 October 2020. However the draft Code of Practice and Regulations are yet to be published... Share this article Bookmark this page 2 min read
POSTED BY LUCY JOHNSTON | 14 JULY 2020 "Misguided paternalism has no place in the Court of Protection": capacity and DoLS in one case The recent case of London Borough of Tower Hamlets v PB concerned a 52-year-old man with a lengthy history of alcohol misuse. He developed alcohol related brain damage and met the criteria for dissocial personality disorder... Share this article Bookmark this page 5 min read
POSTED BY TANIA RICHARDS | 9 JULY 2020 Covid-19 deaths: scrutiny by medical examiners required New statutory guidance requires NHS trusts and NHS foundations trusts in England to ensure ‘scrutiny’ of deaths of health service and adult social care staff from the coronavirus... Share this article Bookmark this page 2 min read
POSTED BY TANIA RICHARDS | 30 JUNE 2020 Another iteration of the Caldicott Principles coming down the track. Could this help with future local lockdowns? The launch of this consultation is timely. Leicester is set to see an extended lockdown to contain the spread of the virus. But could this have been better managed? Reports in the FT suggest that a delay in sharing Covid-19 test data delayed the city’s response... Share this article Bookmark this page 3 min read
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