All Legal articles – Page 11
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News‘Terrorist activity’ concerns trump patient confidentiality, NHS staff told
Health professionals should not let fears about sharing personal data “stand in the way” of reporting patients at risk of “being groomed into terrorist activity”, new government guidance has stressed.
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HSJ LocalCity braced for ‘Winterbourne View’-level scandal
Police are braced to investigate a ‘Winterbourne View’-level scandal in Greater Manchester, with a TV documentary expected to include allegations of serious patient abuse.
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Expert BriefingTrust 'hiding serious harm and death' report
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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Expert BriefingWest Country Chronicle: Green shoots from city’s £1.6bn integration overhaul
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Full force Flory
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsTop medical director criticised by tribunal after attempted ‘humiliation’ of sacked doctor
One of the top medical directors in the North West has been heavily criticised by an employment tribunal, after a doctor who was unfairly sacked was then offered her job back on lower pay.
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NewsFraudulent ex-NHS chair told he must repay almost £100k
A former NHS chair who lied his way into a string of top jobs must pay back nearly £100,000 of earnings after the Supreme Court overruled his successful appeal.
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Expert BriefingWest Country Chronicle: One of the worst examples of NHS procurement
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsPrivate provider sues NHS England over £270m contract award
A private provider is accusing NHS England of breaking procurement rules after it awarded a contract for prison health services in the South West to a London mental health trust.
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HSJ LocalCCG staff ‘crossed the line’ in ‘manipulating’ contract award
Three clinical commissioning groups have been fined after they “manipulated” a procurement process to award a £2m contract to a favoured supplier.
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NewsExclusive: Department of Health pays £2.2m for covid inquiry legal advice
The Department of Health and Social Care has brought in external legal support to help it prepare for the independent public inquiry into the covid pandemic.
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NewsNHSE lead: ‘Hard legislation’ needed to join up NHS IT
‘Hard legislation’ is needed to push suppliers to make the IT systems used by the NHS interoperable, an NHS England clinical lead has said.
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NewsCQC prosecutes troubled provider over death of teenage girl
A struggling mental health trust is being prosecuted over accusations it failed to protect a teenager at a children’s inpatient unit.
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NewsGPs lose ‘turning point’ legal battle with NHS property agency
Estate chiefs hope a landmark court triumph marks a ‘turning point’ in their relationship with GPs after a legal challenge brought by the British Medical Association was dismissed.
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NewsTrust was sent ‘unfit’ ventilators at height of pandemic
A trust was supplied with ventilators that were not ‘fit for NHS purposes’ by two suppliers at the height of the first covid wave, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsJavid wants top leaders to leave ‘walled gardens’ and take over struggling trusts
Sajid Javid has said ‘underperforming’ trusts could be forced to join ‘reform partnerships’ designed to spread the NHS’s best leaders across areas which are struggling.
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NewsSage member refused to back covid discharges statement
A member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies committee refused to sign up to the consensus statement on the impact of hospital discharges on covid outbreaks in care homes.
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HSJ LocalTrust sues over PFI building failures
One of England’s largest NHS trusts is suing its private finance initiative provider and an international construction company for millions after fire safety defects forced part of an acute hospital to close.
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HSJ LocalPolice drop inquiries into alleged manipulation of waiting list
Police have dropped a case against a Midlands trust which was accused of manipulating its waiting lists.
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NewsCovid discharges to care homes necessary, but DHSC failed on isolation, court finds
Discharging untested hospital patients into care homes in spring 2020 was ‘necessary to preserve the capacity of the NHS’, but the government acted illegally by failing to recommend they were isolated on admission, the High Court has ruled.