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Health and Social Care - NHS/Public Sector
Regulating NHS provider-owned companies – our response to NHS Improvement
We previously updated clients concerning NHS Improvement’s (“NHSI”) consultation regarding NHS provider-owned subsidiaries. NHSI’s latest proposals wo ...
Case alert: High Court rejects challenge to CCGs' policy favouring cheaper, unlicensed drug
In the recent case of Bayer Plc and Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd v NHS Darlington CCG and Oths [2018] EWHC 2465 (Admin), Whipple J rejected an appl ...
Appeal decision calls into question the merit of early Summary Judgment Applications - Hewes v West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust & Others
In June we reported a successful Summary Judgment application by the Defendant in Hewes v West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust & Others. We must ...
Latest on when to go to court in 'no dispute' treatment cases
Although the Supreme Court decided earlier this year in 'Y' that it is not mandatory to seek court approval before withdrawing clinically assisted nut ...
Health Adviser Issue 19
The latest version of our Health Adviser magazine is now available online, click on the articles below to find out more. Health Adviser is an industry ...
Digital innovation in the NHS
Tara Donnelly, Chief Executive of the Health Innovation Network tells Adrian O’Dowd how digital, technology and AI are all fast becoming a common real ...
CANH withdrawal: who decides?
A new Supreme Court ruling means clinicians do not have to go to a judge to withdraw food and drink for people in a persistent vegetative state and ot ...
How the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill will improve the protection of vulnerable people
The Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill is the Government response to widespread recognition that the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) scheme is ...
