Commissioning, contracts and procurement

The Supreme Court have handed down a decision of some magnitude for inquest practitioners and those they represent. R (on the application of Maughan) (Appellant) v Her Majesty’s Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire (Respondent) [2020] UKSC 46.

The health and social care regulator is consulting on its strategy for the next five years and beyond. Its draft strategy document explains how it plans to develop its approach to regulation in the context of a changing health and care landscape – taking into account learning from the Covid-19 pandemic, the growth of new technology and the shift to delivering care as a ‘system’ rather than the ‘single provider service model’. In short, ensuring that the new regulatory model is fit for the future

In Surrey County Council v NHS Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group [2020] the High Court allowed a private law claim in restitution by a local authority which alleged that a PCT (and its successor, the CCG) had been unjustly enriched by its refusal to accept commissioning responsibility for a young man placed into its area by the local authority.

Bourn Hall, the renowned IVF fertility clinics in the east of England, has secured significant investment from Triangle Capital Corporation, a Canadian-based investment firm.