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NICE launches quality standards for the NHS

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 5 2010

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has launched the first set of quality standards, setting the benchmark for high quality treatment and care in the NHS for stroke, dementia and the prevention of venous-thromboembolism

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

DH announces NICE compliance regime

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 3 2012

On the back of a review led by Sir Ian Carruthers, the DH’s NHS Improvement and Efficiency Directorate has published Innovation, health and wealth Accelerating adoption and diffusion in the NHS, setting out an integrated set of measures to support the adoption and diffusion of innovation across the NHS, with a delivery agenda designed to ramp up the pace and scale of change

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

NHS management regulatory matters - clarification of test for interim order of suspension imposed by the GMC

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 14 2010

Dr Sandler applied to the High Court for the termination of an interim order imposed by the General Medical Council, under section 41A(1) Medical Act 1983, suspending his registration

Implications of the EU Directive on Cross-Border Healthcare for NHS commissioners

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
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  • June 6 2011

Earlier this year we reported that the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers had formally adopted the Directive on patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare first released in draft by the Commission in 2008

Responsible commissioner and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs): when the normal rules do not apply

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

Just when you felt it had already taken a lifetime to get to grips with the responsible commissioner rules relating to PCTs, it is out with the old

Draft Local Authorities (Public Health Functions and Entry to Premises by Local Healthwatch Representatives) Regulations 2012 published

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

Draft regulations are to be laid before Parliament, setting out the steps to be taken by local authorities in exercising the public health functions of

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (hfea) launches consultation on mitochondrial manipulation

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 15 2012

At the invitation of the Government, HFEA has launched a public consultation on the ethics of an IVF based technique designed to prevent the transmission of certain types of inherited disease from mother to child

NHS Constitution revised from 1 April 2013

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 8 2013

In March 2012, the NHS Future Forum working group on the NHS Constitution, chaired by Professor Sir Steve Field, was tasked with advising the