All Legal articles – Page 13
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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.
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CommentMake publishing NHS workforce planning forecasts a legal duty
Despite workforce being the biggest challenge facing the health service, the Health and Care Bill provides no clarity on the numbers of staff this country needs, says Andrew Goddard
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NewsBuilding order of ‘new hospitals’ revealed as £550m consultancy deals announced
Projects in Dorset and Devon are set to be the first within the government’s New Hospital Programme to agree construction contracts.
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NewsTrust board backs medical director who wrongly dismissed whistleblower
A trust board has backed the medical director who oversaw the dismissal of a whistleblower in a case linked to patient deaths.
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NewsChief executive of prestigious hospital loses whistleblowing case
The chief executive of one of England’s most prestigious private hospitals has lost her employment tribunal claim that she was dismissed for whistle blowing over patient safety issues.
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NewsAcute trust fined £111,000 over 91-year-old's 'awful' injuries
United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust has been fined more than £100,000 after it pleaded guilty to causing an elderly patient avoidable harm.
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NewsThird acute trust to be prosecuted by CQC
The Care Quality Commission is to prosecute an acute trust after a patient was injured when allegedly exposed to ‘avoidable harm’.
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NewsTrust loses whistleblowing case over ‘pioneering’ procedure
A senior medic has won a whistleblowing case after judges ruled she was dismissed after raising concerns about a new procedure her department was using.
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NewsCCGs secure ‘significant’ payment from firm over collapsed outsourcing
A long-running legal wrangle over a failed outsourced service has been settled, with a payout to the clinical commissioning groups involved, the CCGs have said.
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NewsDitching Russian gas could leave the NHS with a huge bill
The health secretary’s order for the NHS to excise Russian and Belarusian firms from its supply chain this week came with an acknowledgement that it may not be immediately possible to end contracts with suppliers.
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NewsNHS employers told: ‘Comply in full’ with tax rules for ‘locum and agency staff’
NHS England has told trusts and commissioners to ‘comply in full’ with regulations which mean deducting tax and national insurance from the payments made to some contractors, despite the ‘substantial administrative implications’ this will create.
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NewsDirector sacked for harassing trainees loses wrongful dismissal case
A senior medic sacked after sexually harassing two trainees has lost his employment tribunal claim.
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CommentShould the General Medical Services contract be scrapped?
In his 2019 independent review of the partnership model, Nigel Watson concluded that the ‘partnership model is not dead’. Almost three years, and a pandemic later, is it time for a rethink, ask Robert Ede, Dr David Landau and Sean Phillips
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NewsCap on legal costs for negligence cases to save £600m
The government is pushing ahead with long-standing plans for a new cap on legal costs for lower value clinical negligence cases, which it predicts could save £600m spread over the next 10 years.
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NewsNHS legal chief resigns with nine days’ notice
NHS Resolution chair Martin Thomas has quietly resigned, with no official press announcement, following allegations of ‘inappropriate behaviour’ in a previous role.
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CommentThe buy-out is the existential threat to the NHS
NHS does face real and existential danger - not from a sudden ‘sell-off’, but rather from the ‘buy-out’. And it is happening, uncontested, before our eyes, writes Chris Thomas