All Legal articles – Page 60
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HSJ PartnersCorporate manslaughter: with convictions on the rise, are you vulnerable?
Corporate manslaughter: are you at risk?
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NewsExclusive: Concerns over nurse rapist raised five years ago
Concerns about a nurse convicted last month of raping and photographing unconscious patients at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford were raised more than five years ago, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsExplained: Labour's ‘profit cap’ to prevent 'tide of privatisation'
Labour’s NHS ‘private profit cap’ explained
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NewsLabour's 'profit cap' policy faces European legal hurdles, say lawyers
Ed Miliband’s proposal to cap the profits of private sector providers of NHS services at 5 per cent would come up against EU legislation, lawyers have told HSJ.
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HSJ LocalNurse pleads guilty to sexually assaulting unconscious patients
A nurse has been convicted of a series of rape and sex offences while working in the accident and emergency department at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
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NewsAvoidable harm bill becomes law today
A new law on avoidable harm in health and social care is set to receive royal assent today.
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NewsGMC to challenge 'lenient' misconduct decisions under new powers
The General Medical Council will be able to challenge ‘lenient’ decisions against doctors suspected of misconduct for the first time.
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NewsExclusive: Vanguard areas call for tender moratorium
NHS England and Monitor are facing calls to exempt ‘vanguard’ areas from requirements to tender services, amid fears that procurement processes could undermine efforts to establish integrated primary, community and acute care models.
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HSJ LocalCCG makes recommendations after murder case review
PERFORMANCE: A review of a murder case by clinical commissioning groups, child protection experts and police has concluded that training for staff in recognising domestic abuse should emphasise the role of ‘coercive control’ in relationships.
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HSJ LocalCommissioners told to tighten up job applicant checks
WORKFORCE: Counter fraud specialists at NHS Protect have warned West and South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Commissioning Support Unit about ‘inconsistencies’ and ‘weakness’ in their pre-employment checks.
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NewsMapped: Quarter of area teams resort to NHS England arbitration
HSJ’s map of NHS England arbitration of disputes between providers and clinical commissioning groups since April 2013
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NewsKing's Fund disputes Labour plan to exempt NHS from EU rules
Labour’s election proposal to make the NHS exempt from European Union procurement law cannot be implemented unless a future government curbs the independence of foundation trusts, the King’s Fund has said.
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NewsKirkup clinical lead standards would be ‘struggle’ to implement
A recommendation by the Kirkup inquiry that national standards should be drawn up for all clinical leads would be “a struggle” to make work in practice, leading regulatory lawyers have said
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HSJ PartnersThe dawn of a new regulatory era: Get familiar with new CQC guidance
The CQC’s new rules for providers
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NewsRichards: CQC will not shirk from action against trusts with 'unfit' directors
A shortage in the supply of senior NHS managers will not prevent the Care Quality Commission from taking action against trusts who employ ‘unfit’ directors, Sir Mike Richards has told HSJ.
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NewsExclusive: PHSO's capability questioned after Morecambe Bay report
The capability of the Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman to investigate complaints and obtain evidence has been seriously questioned in light of the inquiry into failings at University Hospital of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalSolent to sue Hampshire council over tender award
COMMERCIAL: Solent Trust is set to sue Hampshire County Council after the local authority awarded a £41.3m contract for adult substance misuse services to another provider, HSJ has been told.
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NewsSavile inquiry calls for change in law for screening staff
There is ‘very patchy’ management of volunteer schemes in trusts and the law should be changed so that all staff and volunteers in contact with patients should be given a barring list check, the authors of an investigation into Jimmy Savile’s historic sexual abuse have said.
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NewsIndependent inquiry due into trust’s handling of whistleblower
An independent investigation into the handling of whistleblowing concerns at a West Midlands trust, commissioned by the NHS Trust Development Authority, is expected to report soon, HSJ has learned.