All Legal articles – Page 67
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NewsTrust bosses apologise for personal comments in ‘whistleblower’ meeting
The chief executive and HR director of a mental health trust have apologised for making unguarded personal comments about a senior manager and her union representative
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News'Hostile' private provider ordered to pay whistleblowing nurse's costs
A private provider of nursing services across Britain must pay the legal costs of a whistleblowing nurse, according to a tribunal that described the firm as ‘unreasonably hostile’.
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CommentThose worrying about the transatlantic trade deal should look closer to home
EU-US deal will have less impact than expected
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CommentWho pays when it goes wrong? The uncertainty of private providers in the NHS
Confusion over negligence
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HSJ LocalGreat Western calls in lawyers over PFI contract concerns
COMMERCIAL: The management of a South West hospital has ‘lost confidence’ in its private finance initiative service provider after it failed to maintain standards of quality and hygiene.
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SupplementsLGC/HSJ Integration Summit report: The legal angles
The implications of new integration legislation
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SupplementsTransformation supplement: Seal the deal
NHS leaders need to embrace IT and technology as part of everything they do
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HSJ KnowledgeFailure to prepare IT projects is to prepare for failure
Precision planning pays dividends with new tech projects
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HSJ LocalSecond inquest into Stafford Hospital death resumes
A second inquest into the death of a man who died after being treated at Stafford Hospital in 2006 was due to resume in Leicestershire today.
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NewsLabour insists scrapping NHS competition would not require major upheaval
A legal adviser to the Labour Party has rejected claims it would have to ‘dismantle’ the commissioner-provider split in order to remove the effect of EU procurement rules on the NHS.
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NewsStevens to Burnham: 2006 law ‘prevents NHS tendering ban’
Exclusive: NHS England told the shadow health secretary it could not impose his proposed moratorium on letting health service contracts because of European procurement rules dating back to 2006
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NewsSpecialist team jailed for conspiring to defraud hospital trust
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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NewsHunt backs legal measure to ease creation of 'super CCGs'
Healthwatch England’s bid to secure seats for patient champions on all ‘super clinical commissioning groups’ has been dashed by the health secretary in a letter rejecting claims such structures are unaccountable.
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NewsCCGs to retender out of hours contract after legal row
Four clinical commissioning groups in north east England have scrapped a near complete procurement process for their GP out of hours services after a legal challenge by one of the bidders.
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NewsFinney makes new claims in legal battle against CQC
The former deputy chief executive of the Care Quality Commission has made new claims in a legal battle against her ex-employer, alleging its current chair ‘hyped’ a report that stated she staged a ‘cover up’.
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NewsCQC: Look beyond councils to 'crack' integration
NHS organisations need to look beyond their relationships with local authorities to truly develop integrated services, the chief inspector of adult social care has said.
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CommentCan we trust police when it comes to patient data and confidentiality?
They want access to confidential GP medical records
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NewsNICE on the offensive in row over breast cancer drug
NICE has taken the unprecedented step of expressing its ‘disappointment’ with a multinational drug giant in a row over a new breast cancer drug and the government’s pricing deal
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NewsExclusive: Francis to stop the NHS's 'climate of fear' as review launches
The role of probing claims made by NHS whistleblowers could be taken out of the hands of hospital trusts, the head of a major government inquiry has indicated in an exclusive interview with HSJ.