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Change in the law a bar to ovarian tissue replacement?

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 20 2012

A young woman, Miss Oliver, whose ovarian tissue was removed and cryopreserved before she began chemotherapy for Ewing’s sarcoma as a teenager, has discovered that a change in the law in the intervening period may prevent Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust from replanting the tissue to overcome the fact that she was left infertile by the treatment for cancer

Innovation, health and wealth: one year on from a NICE perspective

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 4 2013

In Innovation, health and wealth (IHW), Sir David Nicholson declared that innovation must become core business for the NHS if it is to improve outcomes

New regulations for CCGs arrive

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 4 2013

On the 5 December we saw the snappily entitled National Health Service and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations

Government response to consultation on Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)Human Tissue Authority (HTA) function transfer proposals

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 4 2013

In Liberating the NHS, the DH announced its intention to radically reduce the number of arm's length bodies. Readers will recall that a consultation

Expert Group on Commissioning NHS Infertility Provision publishes Final Report

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 16 2011

The independent expert group on the commissioning of NHS fertility provision, which produced an interim report in 2008 and a commissioning aid in 2009, has now published its final report entitled Final report of the Expert Group on Commissioning NHS Infertility Provision

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority agrees new policies in wake of donation consultation

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 8 2011

We have previously reported that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) had embarked upon a comprehensive review and a three month public consultation in relation to its policies on egg and sperm donation

R (on the application of Alexander Thomas Condliff) v North Staffordshire PCT

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 27 2011

North Staffordshire PCT, represented by Mills & Reeve and counsel, David Lock QC, has successfully resisted an appeal against the High Court decision of His Honour Judge Waksman QC

The DH publishes operational guidance on extending patient choice of provider

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 8 2011

In response to Liberating the NHS: greater choice and control, the DH has issued operational guidance to commissioners and providers on the implementation of the Government’s commitment to extend patient choice of provider

First reported case of gang trafficking individuals to UK for organ harvesting

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 21 2012

A report from the Salvation Army has revealed the case of an adult female brought to the UK by a trafficking gang, for the sole purpose of having her organs harvested for sale

National Clinical Assessment Service (NCAS) to become part of NHS Litigation Authority

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 17 2012

NCAS, the body that provides support to performers, employers and list holders in cases of deficient medical, dental and pharmaceutical practice, will become an operating division of the NHS Litigation Authority on 1 April 2013