All Legal articles – Page 43
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NewsChief coroner warning over 'lacuna in the law' for death reporting
The chief coroner for England has warned of a gap in the law over when doctors should report deaths to a coroner.
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HSJ LocalTrust fined £600,000 for late payments of supplier
A £412m turnover hospital trust has been fined more than £600,000 over the late payment of a supplier in the last three financial years.
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NewsNHSI and NHS England plan closer collaboration
NHS Improvement and NHS England are to explore closer working including the prospect of occasional joint board meetings, the new chair of NHSI has said.
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CommentAccountable care is a means to an end
To ease the difficult transition towards accountable care, Claire Kennedy and Julia Simon outline various dos and don’ts for organisations
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HSJ LocalHospital sent patient data to USA by mistake
Patient data held by a hospital trust was erroneously sent to and stored on a company’s server in USA, amid problems with a new electronic patient record system.
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HSJ LocalTrust faces £48m repair bill for PFI hospital
A trust faces a £48m repair bill to make one of its hospitals safe because of loopholes in the drafting of its private finance initiative contract, Department of Health documents reveal.
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HSJ LocalHospital trust fined over patients' deaths
A Midlands trust has pleaded guilty to failings in the care of five patients who died after falling in its hospitals.
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NewsExclusive: Hunt orders inquiry into NHS 'never events'
Jeremy Hunt has ordered a review into preventable “never events” in NHS hospitals amid concern that the numbers of serious mistakes are not reducing.
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HSJ LocalSouthern Health pleads guilty to third prosecution
Southern Health has pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety law after a patient died while in the trust’s care.
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HSJ LocalSir Leonard Fenwick misses chance to launch tribunal
The deadline for disgraced former trust chief executive Sir Leonard Fenwick to launch an employment tribunal against his former employer has expired, HSJ understands.
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HSJ LocalTrust defies CQC order to change weapons search policy
A large mental health trust is resisting a requirement from the Care Quality Commission to drop blanket patient searches as it would put people at risk from knife crime.
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NewsBMA stance on whistleblower protection 'misguided', claims charity
Whistleblowing charity Public Concern at Work has raised fears over the level of whistleblowing protection for junior doctors.
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NewsWinners of NHS contract disputes worth millions revealed
NHS England has released details of three arbitration cases between commissioners and trusts, which were arguing over millions in funding.
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News'Worrying' review into NHS data sharing deal with Home Office
A report clearing NHS Digital to share patients’ private information with the Home Office has been called “worrying” by the man who commissioned it more than three years ago.
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CommentDo not overlook the real achievements of PFI
Paul Ridout on the role of PFI in the improvement of NHS facilities
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NewsCCGs warned policies could break discrimination laws
Clinical commissioning groups have been warned their policies on assisted conception could fall foul of discrimination laws if they treat same sex couples differently from heterosexual ones.
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NewsSupreme Court gives doctors new power to challenge regulator
The Supreme Court has granted doctors facing investigation by the General Medical Council a new route to challenge the regulator’s processes.
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NewsClinical director loses employment tribunal over private work
A former clinical director has lost his employment tribunal case after a judge ruled he quit his trust over the impact a reconfiguration would have had on his private work, not over patient safety.
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NewsNew quango warns £560m NHS fraud going undetected
The new NHS Counter Fraud Authority believes the health service is losing more than half a billion pounds in likely but uncorroborated fraud.
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HSJ LocalMid Staffs finally abolished after decade of scandal
The hospital trust at the centre of one of the worst care scandals in the NHS’s history will finally be dissolved tomorrow after three years as a shell organisation costing taxpayers £2.5m.