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A contractual “duty of candour”

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

Following newly-published analysis from the Department of Health, this briefing examines the practicalities and implications of a contractual “duty of candour” for commissioners and providers

Local policy changes require PCTs to go beyond legal duties in conducting NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) eligibility assessments for previously un-assessed period of care

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 21 2013

PCTs are currently suffering an onslaught of requests for retrospective assessments of CHC eligibility following the announcement of the deadlines

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

Duty of candour: consultation outcome

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

As mentioned in our introduction, we have produced a briefing note on the DH's plans to introduce a contractual duty of candour. This follows the

Draft framework for collaborative commissioning between Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG): no CCG is an island

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

The NHS Commissioning Board has published a draft framework to govern CCGs working collaboratively with other CCGs to enable them to look beyond their own local commissioning role and ensure quality, access and outcomes requirements are met

Role of SSGs in NHS continuing healthcare (CHC) eligibility decision-making

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 6 2012

Now we have the revised National Framework for NHS CHC and NHS-funded Nursing Care (published last week on 28 November 2012) the role of CCGs' and

Continuing Healthcare (CHC)

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 10 2012

On 21 November 2012, the NHS Confederation Community Health Services Forum published a briefing on NHS Continuing Healthcare

Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG)

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

There is a huge amount of information coming out from the NHS Commissioning Board about CCGs

Procurement case makes further in-roads into the Remedies Directive

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 21 2011

In Exel Europe Limited v University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, the High Court again, in the second case within a month, concluded that it was appropriate to lift the automatic ban on entering into a contract, to allow the contracting authority to proceed with the award of a contract, notwithstanding that the award was subject to legal challenge

NHS Bodies and Local Authorities Partnership Arrangements going forward

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 20 2012

On 17 December The NHS Bodies and Local Authorities (Partnership Arrangements, Care Trusts, Public Health and Local Healthwatch) Regulations 2012