Search results

Order by most recent / most popular / relevance

Results: 1-10 of 134

Ombudsmen recommend reimbursement of costs of private care

Mills & Reeve LLP
-
United Kingdom
-
September 10 2009

The Public Services Ombudsman for Wales and the Health Service Ombudsman for England have issued a joint report recommending that the Health Commission Wales (HCW) reimburse a mother and daughter some £31,000 for fees paid for medical care for the daughter in a private eating disorders unit, following a finding of maladministration and service failure connected with a refusal to fund treatment on the NHS

Report recommends ban on private clinical practice utilising organs donated after death

Mills & Reeve LLP
-
United Kingdom
-
September 10 2009

An independent report (the report) clarifying the rules on cadaver solid organ transplants for NHS patients and non-UK EU residents has recently been published

Challenge to age criterion for IVF: seeing in the new year with a NICE judicial review?

Mills & Reeve LLP
-
United Kingdom
-
January 4 2013

A childless couple from Berkshire are apparently threatening to issue a claim for judicial review against the Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt

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

Responsibilities regulations

Mills & Reeve LLP
-
United Kingdom
-
January 4 2013

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

GMC launches confidential helpline for doctors to raise concerns about patient safety

Mills & Reeve LLP
-
United Kingdom
-
January 4 2013

For the first time, doctors concerned about patient safety can now contact the GMC through a new confidential helpline number (0161 923 6399). The

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

Proposed regulations set to extend availability of parental orders in surrogacy arrangements to same sex and unmarried couples

Mills & Reeve LLP
-
United Kingdom
-
October 9 2009

The Department of Health has put out to consultation draft regulations to implement the provisions of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (the 2008 Act) which seek to extend the availability of parental orders for those who commission surrogacy arrangements

Report reveals weaknesses in NHS approval process for off-label treatment funding for rarer cancers

Mills & Reeve LLP
-
United Kingdom
-
October 9 2009

The Rarer Cancers Forum (RCF) has recently published a report Off limits revealing wide variations in the way in which NHS organisations process applications for the use of drugs outside their licensed indications, to treat those with rarer cancers

next >