All Legal articles – Page 134
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HSJ Knowledge
Sea change in health scrutiny
As the future of health scrutiny grows increasingly complex, healthcare professionals and local government must ride the wave and forge new relationships, reports Sasha Strong
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News
Commission orders trusts to provide proof of non-discrimination policies
A hospital trust and a primary care trust have been served with legal notices giving them 28 days to prove they do not discriminate against disabled patients or staff.
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Comment
Michael White: parliamentary deadlock
'Parliament is deadlocked on serious issues that may end up in a 'ping pong' test of wills'
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News
Preferential pay-off deals protected
Staff facing the axe under NHS restructuring will be protected from worsened redundancy and retirement terms resulting from new anti-age discrimination laws.
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News
European directive could hamper electronic records
Key planks of the electronic patient record could break European law, the Commons health select committee has been told.
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HSJ Knowledge
Turnaround strategies and the law
Many NHS bodies are developing turnaround plans to achieve financial recovery. The implementation of these raises complex legal issues, particularly on patient and public involvement and employment law. Graeme Trigg reports
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News
Trust scores legal victory
A hospital trust has won its battle to reconfigure its service - after a judicial review upheld the legality of its decision.
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News
Media watch
The Suncalled it the 'Doctors' check-up' and the Daily Expressan 'MOT to weed out dodgy doctors'.
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News
Michael White on politics
What made me flinch wasn't those weekend reports that UK cancer patients are turning to Canadian online pharmacies for drugs they cannot yet get on the NHS.
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News
Mike White on politics
'Would an NHS constitution require primary legislation? How would an arm's-length board be accountable? Tricky'
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News
Legal briefing: EU procurement
Interpretation of EU regulations about advertising when commissioning healthcare is changing
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HSJ Knowledge
The future of the NHS complaints procedure
Reforms to the complaints process are intended to produce a fundamental shift away from attributing blame. Tony Yeaman explains
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News
Parliament lobbied over mental health bill
The Mental Health Alliance is holding a mass lobby of Parliament today over the proposed Mental Health Bill. The proposed legislation is due to have its second reading in the Lords this afternoon.Find out more here
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News
Legal briefing: organising key commissioning relationships
Commissioning has been part and parcel of the NHS for a number of years. What has changed recently is the view that a reinvigorated and more sophisticated commissioning process, with the implementation of practice-based commissioning, will improve services and ensure value for money.
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News
Law on small claims goes ahead
A fast-track, low-cost scheme to resolve clinical negligence claims up to £20,000 without litigation has received royal assent.The NHS Redress Act will see the NHS Litigation Authority run a scheme to determine fault and decide after a trust has carried out a fact-finding exercise into an untoward incident. Patients accepting ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Tackling nuisance behaviour on NHS premises
Disturbances in hospitals are sadly an all too common part of life in the NHS. Over 60,000 assaults against staff were reported to the NHS Security Management Service during 2004 and 2005, and the Healthcare Commission estimates that only around two-thirds of assaults are actually reported - the true number ...
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News
Queen's Speech reignites row over mental health legislation
The government used yesterday's Queen's Speech to confirm that it will introduce a bill to reform mental health legislation, following its decision to abandon plans for a new mental health act in March.The bill will introduce a new definition of 'mental disorder', a new 'appropriate treatment test' and supervised community ...
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HSJ Knowledge
David Lock on pressure to prescribe
'There are two potentially conflicting legal duties here - the duty to prescribe the drug and the legal requirement to break even'
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News
Data fears don't stop survey
The Department of Health is pushing ahead with a massive GP patient experience survey despite fears over data protection issues and dissent from the British Medical Association.
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HSJ Knowledge
When 3x9=24 and fewer tired doctors
A fresh approach to rota design in the wake of the European working-time directive could help ensure that doctors and patients are better looked after. Professor Roy Pounder explains