All Legal articles – Page 80
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CommentSavile saga could leave health service in a fix
Do hospitals have legal liability for Jimmy Savile’s actions?
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News£3.1bn spent over NHS pregnancy errors
Errors made by medical staff when caring for pregnant women have cost the NHS £3.1 billion over the last 10 years, figures show.
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HSJ PartnersSafeguarding in the future NHS – what CCGs need to know
An overview of what CCGs will need to demonstrate with regard to safeguarding children
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HSJ Local
FT chief appointed to Youth Justice Board
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust has been appointed as a non-executive director of the national Youth Justice Board.
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HSJ LocalDevon Virgin contract 'tainted by illegality'
COMMERCIAL: Commissioners in Devon failed to fully discharge their duties under the Equality Act when awarding a £132m contract to Virgin Care, a judge has ruled.
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HSJ LocalGloucestershire community services to stay in the NHS
COMMERCIAL: A primary care trust whose plans to transfer community services to a social enterprise were halted by a legal challenge has decided to keep the services within the NHS.
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HSJ Local
Wolverhampton trust faces £6m pay-out
PERFORMANCE: The family of a disabled boy will receive a £6m pay out from the NHS after doctors and midwives at the Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals Trust failed to recognise he was being starved of oxygen during his birth 11 years ago.
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HSJ LocalLegal challenge to Virgin's children's services contract
COMMERCIAL: A primary care trust’s decision to award a £132m contract for children’s services to Virgin Care is to be challenged in court next week.
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HSJ KnowledgeProtect your intellectual property
A look at protection, exploitation and dispute resolution
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News
Trusts 'fail on patient openness'
The families of patients who are victim of a “serious incident” at an NHS organisation may be waiting for a year before they are given any explanation, researchers found.
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NewsWarnings after PCT data protection breach
Lawyers have warned of the legal limits on sharing information with private companies when running preventative initiatives after a primary care trust was found to have broken the Data Protection Act.
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HSJ Local
Coroner orders Dorset Healthcare to conduct suicide audit
PERFORMANCE: Dorset Healthcare University Foundation Trust has received a coroners Rule 43 letter raising concerns about the death of an individual who had been in contact with mental health services in August 2011.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to handle complaints
The system of dealing with grievances often falls at the hurdles
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News
Hospitals' superbug death payouts revealed
Families of people who died after contracting superbugs in Scottish hospitals have been awarded £660,000 by NHS boards.
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CommentLighten the checklist load
How changes to criminal record checks will affect the healthcare profession
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HSJ Local
Down's sufferer takes action over 'no resuscitation' order
A man with Down’s Syndrome is taking legal action against a trust after a do not resuscitate (DNR) order was put on his file without the knowledge of his next of kin.
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NewsStop gag on NHS whitleblowers - MP
NHS lawyers should not be able to gag whistleblowers from revealing damning information in the public interest, an MP has said.
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HSJ KnowledgeNew duties - are you ready?
Are we prepared for the implications of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 for governors?
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HSJ KnowledgePulling the plug on PCTs
PCTs’ intellectual property rights will need to be transferred to an appropriate home