SECTORS SERVICES INTERNATIONAL PEOPLE Home Insights Blogs Current: Health and care Health and care Health and care blog Our health and care law blog provides insight on the latest legal, policy and commercial issues affecting the NHS and the independent health sector. Filter POSTED BY ROB DAY 24 NOVEMBER 2021 Update on Integrated Care Boards On Monday evening, the Health and Care Bill was amended to clarify that there can be more than one NHS Trust/Foundation Trust member, primary medical services provider member and local authority member on an integrated care board... Read more Bookmark this page 2 min read Contracts and commissioning Governance and board issues Integrated care systems NHS Reforms POSTED BY ROB DAY | 24 NOVEMBER 2021 New inquiry: the future of general practice The Health and Social Care Committee has launched a new inquiry to investigate the future of NHS general practice, examining the key challenges facing general practice over the next five years as well as the current and ongoing barriers... Bookmark this page 3 min read POSTED BY RHIAN VANDRILL | 23 NOVEMBER 2021 Achilles’ heel: Schedule 2 Integrated Care Boards Yesterday (22 November 2021) saw the Health and Care Bill move to the Report stage in the House of Commons, with the final day of the stage coming to a close today. One of the tabled amendments... Bookmark this page 2 min read POSTED BY TANIA RICHARDS | 17 NOVEMBER 2021 Update: deprivation of liberty, looked after children under 16 and unregulated placements With reports of the increasing number of vulnerable children in England being placed in unregulated placements under deprivation of liberty orders, we report on a recent decision... Bookmark this page 3 min read POSTED BY TANIA RICHARDS | 16 NOVEMBER 2021 Rock and a hard place? Regulations requiring compulsory Covid-19 vaccination of care home workers and others entering care settings are now in force... Bookmark this page 1 min read POSTED BY JILL MASON | 15 NOVEMBER 2021 Patient safety: what lessons can be learned? Delayed by Covid-19, the Government recently published their response to the recommendations of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee’s Inquiry on... Bookmark this page 2 min read POSTED BY JOG HUNDLE | 10 NOVEMBER 2021 COVID vaccination to become condition of deployment for frontline health and care staff Two days before the end of the grace period for the enforcement of its new vaccination policy in care homes, the Government announced that similar requirements will be imposed across the health and wider care sector in England... Bookmark this page 3 min read POSTED BY JILL MASON | 10 NOVEMBER 2021 Government launches adult social care winter plan The Government has published its Adult social care Covid-19 winter plan 2021-22 setting out how it aims to support the sector over the coming months... Bookmark this page 3 min read POSTED BY NEIL WARD | 9 NOVEMBER 2021 Safety watchdog publishes major report on NHS-funded care in independent hospitals Integrated Care Systems must take steps to ensure that effective processes have been implemented to identify local capability and capacity of their local independent acute hospitals, says the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch... Bookmark this page 4 min read POSTED BY JILL MASON | 9 NOVEMBER 2021 CMA concerned over availability, price and quality of children's care The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) recently published its interim report into its market study on children's social care provision... 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