17 March 2020 Blog Update on voluntary overtime case: Supreme Court grants permission to appeal Supreme Court grants permission to appeal in voluntary overtime case. Last week the Supreme Court gave the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust permission to appeal from the Court of Appeal’s ruling that voluntary overtime needed to be included in the calculation of holiday pay for its workers... Share this article Bookmark this page 1 min read
9 March 2020 Blog Medical treatment – don’t delay making an application to the Court of Protection Readers will recall the judicial despair recently articulated by Mr Justice Hayden in Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust concerning the delay in bringing the case to court which had serious consequences for the vulnerable person... Share this article Bookmark this page 4 min read
3 March 2020 Blog NHSX seeks views on its draft Digital Health Technology Standard The draft standard has been created in collaboration with stakeholders from across the digital health system, consolidating existing industry and health standards... Share this article Bookmark this page 2 min read
3 March 2020 Blog Aligning data across the piste: improving data transparency in a post-Paterson era Safety and learning, improving governance in the private health sector. The next phase of the Acute Data Alignment Programme has been launched by NHS Digital and PHIN (the Private Healthcare Information Network) as part of a consultation aimed at better aligning healthcare data with NHS recorded activity (source: NHS Digital)... Share this article Bookmark this page 3 min read
3 March 2020 Blog NHSX hosts round-table of regulators to talk AI and what the plan is Matthew Gould, Chief Executive of NHSX, recently convened a round-table discussion to work through the issues around Artificial Intelligence in health – recognising that AI has “enormous potential for the NHS, if we can use it right”... Share this article Bookmark this page 2 min read
2 March 2020 Blog A case for policy change? Are the current provisions for storage of eggs, sperm and embryos fit for purpose? People undergo (or plan to undergo) fertility treatment in a variety of circumstances, many of which will involve the preservation en route of gametes and embryos by freezing... Share this article Bookmark this page 3 min read
27 February 2020 Blog High Court win for stroke service reconfiguration in South East Eight separate grounds of challenge were made by the claimants in this judicial review – it challenged the decision taken by ten CCGs to de-commission acute stroke services at various sites in Kent... Share this article Bookmark this page 1 min read
27 February 2020 Blog Risk of reputational damage fair reason for dismissing hospital porter The EAT has upheld an employment tribunal decision that a hospital porter working for Nuffield Health had been fairly dismissed because continuing to employ him posed too great a risk to the charity’s reputation... Share this article Bookmark this page 4 min read
27 February 2020 Blog Investigations – can you talk freely within a “safe space” and be protected from disclosure? Tribunal decision makes this unlikely. A new decision from the First-tier Tribunal highlights learning points for public authorities using the “safe space” exemption when navigating FOIA requests... Share this article Bookmark this page 3 min read
25 February 2020 Blog Court of Protection warning – don’t delay! In the case of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust v H Mr Justice Hayden was not best pleased... Share this article Bookmark this page 2 min read
24 February 2020 Blog The ongoing problem of violence against NHS staff The 2019 NHS Staff Survey reveals that 15 per cent of NHS staff experienced physical violence from members of the public and patients in the past year... Share this article Bookmark this page 2 min read
24 February 2020 Blog New Medicines and Medical Devices Bill introduced in the UK This is the first major piece of post-Brexit legislation affecting the life science industry. It was presented to Parliament earlier this month and MPs will have the opportunity to review the main principles of the legislation during its second reading on 2 March... Share this article Bookmark this page 1 min read