All Legal articles – Page 42
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Comment
CQC's mettle as a prosecutor still to be tested
With the Care Quality Commission’s first prosecution occurring in June 2016, Caroline Barker reflects on how the CQC as a prosecutor is slowly coming into its own.
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News
Landmark legal case could save trusts millions in business rates
A “landmark legal case” is set to be launched which could dramatically reduce the business rates paid by NHS trusts, according to a trust’s board papers.
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Comment
How do we make integration more than a tick box exercise?
Integration between health and social care remains an elusive goal but the essential building blocks are well documented, writes Paul Burstow
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HSJ Local
Southern Health fined after it 'failed to protect patients'
Southern Health must pay more than £150,000 after an “inexcusable failure” that led to a mental health patient suffering life changing injuries after they fell from the roof of a psychiatric unit.
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HSJ Local
CQC and police investigate trust after patient death
The Care Quality Commission is expected to visit a Brighton hospital today following the death of an elderly inpatient, who is believed to have swallowed cleaning fluid.
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News
High Court rejects pharma industry's challenge to drug cost controls
The High Court has thrown out a legal challenge by the drugs industry to a controversial affordability test on the introduction of new treatments.
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News
Exclusive: 'Great concern' over 'growing gap' in mental health services
A drop in mental health inpatient beds coupled with a fall in community care provision is a “great concern” that requires an urgent review, a new report has said.
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: Trust pursuing foreign government in court over unpaid debt
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children Foundation Trust is taking legal action against the Libyan government over unpaid debt, HSJ can reveal.
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News
CCGs in legal directions lose commissioning responsibilities
Five clinical commissioning groups have been given legal directions by NHS England this month – two of which have been ordered to stop commissioning all acute services.
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HSJ Local
Trust pleads guilty to health and safety charge over patient's death
One of the country’s largest mental health and community trusts has pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety law over the death of a teenage patient.
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News
Government pushes ahead with safe space plans despite 'misuse' concerns
A new health service safety investigations bill pushes ahead with controversial plans to allow local NHS trusts to investigate safety breaches without the need to disclose the information uncovered.
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Private hospital agrees £27m compensation deal over rogue surgeon
A private hospital group has agreed to pay £27.2m in compensation to patients injured by a surgeon who operated from its sites.
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Comment
Proposed changes to deprivation of liberty laws – what you need to know
Hope Davis-McCallion explains the Law Commission’s ’urgent’ safeguard suggestions
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News
Exclusive: US firm suing NHS England for millions in unpaid bills
A US owned clinical waste firm is suing the NHS for millions of pounds in unpaid bills, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
'Heavy handed' NHS England forces CCG to agree to STP
NHS England threatened commissioners in London with legal directions if they do not support plans to appoint a single accountable officer, HSJ has been told.
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HSJ Local
Hospital downgrade faces legal challenge
A new legal hearing has been granted into the proposed downgrade of an Oxfordshire hospital.
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HSJ Local
Care assistant charged with defrauding Southern Health
A care assistant is to appear in court tomorrow charged with defrauding Southern Health Foundation Trust of more than £250,000.
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News
Exclusive: Police find 'significant under reporting' of fraud in NHS
Significant amounts of fraud are going undetected in the NHS because trusts and their contractors lack the expertise to spot it, a police report obtained by HSJ reveals.
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News
Supreme Court decision forces NHS pension rule change
NHS trusts are to be asked for help in tracking down unmarried former partners of deceased NHS staff who were wrongly denied pension benefits, HSJ has learned.
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Comment
Could Brexit change competition and procurement in the NHS?
Post-Brexit the UK may gain some freedom to redefine the application of competition and procurement in the NHS but any change will depend on the political choices of the government of the day, writes Cristina Sarb