All Legal articles – Page 130
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Litigation Authority: negligence cost concerns
The NHS Litigation Authority has expressed concerns over the high level of legal costs charged by claimant lawyers in clinical negligence claims.
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Confusion around merger of key inspectors
Uncertainty surrounds the proposed merger of the Healthcare Commission and the Commission for Social Care Inspection, which was expected to be announced next week.
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Trust apologises for leak of payroll details
Royal Cornwall Hospitals trust has apologised to 12,000 staff after a laptop computer holding their payroll details went missing.
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Council woos LINks hosts ahead of legislation
Warrington borough council has launched a hunt for an organisation to host its local involvement networks before these new patient groups have been enshrined in law.
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Legal briefing: how penalties will work under the new model contract for acute trusts
The Department of Health has recently published two forms of model contract for the provision of acute hospital services, both within and outside the scope of the national tariff. The models are in legally and non-legally binding form for use by foundation trusts, hospital Trusts and PCT commissioners. We would ...
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RCN to discuss strike action
Nurses could be balloted over industrial action following a meeting held this week.
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South Staffs adds to foundation acquisitions
A mental health trust has become the second foundation trust to use its independent powers to take over provider services from another NHS organisation.
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Directors resign as report finds 'many years' of abuse
People with learning disabilities were hit, pushed and dragged by staff working for an NHS trust in Cornwall, a joint investigation by the Healthcare Commission and the Commission for Social Care Inspection has found.People with learning disabilities were hit, pushed and dragged by staff working for an NHS trust in ...
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Legal briefing: treatment abroad
The large numbers of patients heading overseas to avoid NHS waiting lists, or to access cheap private treatment, are well documented.
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Scarborough to axe 600 jobs in bid for foundation status
An NHS trust is axing a third of its workforce in a bid to avoid having its finances scrutinised by the health secretary.
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Legal briefing: EU procurement
Interpretation of EU regulations about advertising when commissioning healthcare is changing
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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