All Legal articles – Page 74
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NewsBan on gagging clauses is 'smoke and mirrors'
High level announcements about restrictions on the use of confidentiality clauses have “limited significance” but may help to clarify their effect for staff, lawyers have told HSJ.
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NewsExclusive: Gary Walker did tell Nicholson he was a whistleblower
Former United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust chief executive Gary Walker did seek to be treated as a whistleblower when he approached Sir David Nicholson with patient safety concerns, a document seen by HSJ reveals.
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Blogs
Patients vs the business case
The NHS is not subject to local democratic accountability. If you want to have more say in what happens to your local hospital maybe you should advocate a transfer to local government
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NewsMerging foundation trusts sign competition undertakings
The providers involved in the first merger between two foundation trusts have signed up to undertakings restricting how they can communicate with each other.
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HSJ Local
Trust acknowledges errors in care of patient found hanged
PERFORMANCE: Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust has said it “sincerely regrets” the shortcomings in the care provided to a man with mental health problems who was found dead at his home last year.
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HSJ KnowledgeCountdown to the new licensing regime
Many issues face providers in the second licence wave
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NewsCorporate manslaughter case attempt brought against Nicholson
Sir David Nicholson could face a private criminal prosecution for corporate manslaughter over deaths at the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
Medway FT accepts health and safety fine
FINANCE: Medway Foundation Trust accepted a fine for beaching health and safety laws, according to board papers presented in January.
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HSJ Local
Largest hospital reconfiguration in England signed off by commissioners
The most significant proposed acute services reconfiguration in England has been approved by commissioners.
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HSJ Local
Complaint sparks police involvement at Kent neuro unit
WORKFORCE: A member of staff at a neuro-rehabilitation unit has been suspended and a police investigation launched after a complaint from a patient’s family about their care.
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NewsGovernment tendering rules will lead to big shake-up in services, lawyers warn
Lawyers have warned that new procurement rules due to come into force in April could see significant changes in the provision of NHS services.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhat needs to happen to PCTs' IT assets
Guidance for sorting out the complexities of IT contracts before April
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HSJ Local
Trust sued over surgery blunder
PERFORMANCE: Salisbury Foundation Trust is being sued by a patient who had the wrong testicle removed during surgery and can no longer have children.
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HSJ KnowledgeClinical commissioning groups: the story so far
The criteria failed by CCGs show their strengths and weaknesses
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CommentWhat a 'duty of candour' means in practice
Candour permeates Robert Francis’ 290 recommendations
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NewsCompromise agreements 'should not silence safety concerns'
The vast majority of compromise agreements in the NHS are not the result of whistleblowing disputes, while confidentiality clauses cannot be used to directly prevent patient safety concerns being raised, HSJ has been told.
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News
Competition investigations spell problems for mergers
Trusts’ merger plans are likely to be blocked if they cannot prove they are the only way to improve services, new advice from Monitor suggests.
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CommentWhistleblowers and hospitals both need more protecting
We can’t have hospitals where doctors are outnumbered by lawyers
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NewsUnited Lincs: Former chief exec was not 'gagged' on patient safety
The hospital trust at the centre of the furore over whistleblowing and gagging clauses has told HSJ its former chief executive, Gary Walker, is and was always free to speak out about its patient care.
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CommentFrancis's legal rigour is exactly what's needed
New laws and regulation would really put patients first