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May 2012

  • Recycling Surgical Implants
  • Top 10 Tips: Freedom of Information Act Requests
  • Provision of community based services. Do you know what property liabilities you might be inheriting?
  • HIV treatment and overseas visitors
  • Elderly Home Care and Human Rights in the UK

CCG Update - March 2012

  • In a nutshell
  • Contact Us
  • Interim Governance Arrangements
  • Conflicts of Interest

CCG Update - January 2012

  • Update on economic regulation / competition
  • CCG's - How to become authorised
  • Employment issues - Fragmentation
  • Procurement Law
  • Contact us
  • In a nutshell

January 2012

  • Risk management in prison healthcare - Cinderella turned into a true princess?
  • Legal challenges to Social Care cuts - recent developments
  • A duty of candour - Transparency and openness or more red tape?
  • Managing NHS Records and Data

October 2011

  • Bribery Act 2010 - Now in force
  • Data Security - Is it part of the culture of your organisation?
  • Positive Action: The Equality Act 2010
  • Corporate manslaughter provisions now apply to detained patients
  • Misuse of medical devices
  • Clinical Commissioning Groups - Update

April 2011

  • Reducing services? Don't make any decisions without considering Equality Legislation
  • Enabling Excellence: Autonomy & Accountability for NHS Managers
  • Never events - The list gets longer
  • What does 'Care and Compassion' say about NHS Complaints?
  • Revalidation: Are you ready for 2012?
  • NHS restructuring and its implications for NHS innovation
  • Tweet, tweet, tweet... order in the courtroom?

January 2011

  • Transforming Community Services - The provider property puzzle
  • Information Commissioner issues £100,000 fine
  • Inquests and Risk Management - learning lessons from Rule 43 Reports
  • The NHS Quality Standards - A better way of achieving quality and efficiency consistently across the NHS?
  • Electronic Disclosure - what the new Court Rule requires
  • A new local approach to Public Health
  • Making locum or temporary staff permanent: what fees are payable?

September 2010

  • Transforming Community Services - the future direction
  • New regulatory policy - The ICO gets tough!
  • Fighting back
  • Our top ten tips for maintaining patient safety
  • GMC calls for evidence on new safeguarding guidance
  • Putting Transforming Community Services into action

May 2010

  • Corporate Manslaughter - update
  • Mid Staffordshire Inquiry - where next?
  • On a Wing and a Prayer?
  • A more bidder friendly environment - the implications of developments in procurement law
  • The Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme
  • Incident reporting becomes mandatory for all

February 2010

  • Bid-rigging decision - what to do now
  • CQC gets to grips with Infection Control
  • Tomorrow's Doctors
  • Isn’t the doctor always right? - revisiting the MCA and the IMCA service
  • The NHS in Cyberspace

June 2009

  • Hempsons' Patient Safety Forum
  • The Care Quality Commission - The New Single and Integrated Regulator
  • Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
  • A New Offence: Causing a Nuisance or Disturbance on NHS Premises
  • Statutory Directors’ Duties May Now be on the Cards
  • The "Experimental Use" Defence for Patent Infringement During Research

Dec 2008

  • Music in Trust Buildings - are you licensed?
  • Data security - the ICO's new teeth
  • FT takes on provider role for PCTs
  • NHS Indemnity Scheme Extended to Private Healthcare
  • Requests by Police for Samples
  • New Powers for Coroners

Sept 2008

  • Sustainability - Consultation on the draft carbon reduction strategy for the NHS
  • Changes to arrangements for regulating NHS bodies in relation to healthcare associated infections for 2009/10
  • Monitor's Intervention Powers
  • The Draft NHS Constitution: Enforcement Issues
  • Reporting Knife Wounds
  • The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards

June 2008

  • Come and see us at the NHS Confederation annual conference, 18th - 20th June
  • Extensions of Time
  • Troubled Waters Ahead For Trust Boards
  • Public-Private Sector Joint Venture
  • Opiate dependent prisoners claims
  • Equitable Access - Our Experience So Far

April 2007

  • Upcoming Training Seminars & Conferences
  • Parking Hot Spots
  • International Health Service?
  • Secret Tape Recording By Patients... Be Aware!
  • Intellectual Property - Protecting Your Intangible Assets
  • "Top Up" Care and Patient Pressure to Co-Fund

November 2007

  • Whistleblowing - A Trust’s Perspective
  • Contractors Occupying NHS Premises
  • A new health and adult social care regulator
  • The Healthcare Commission's Investigation of Trust's Complaints Procedures
  • New law on corporate manslaughter

July 2007

  • Give us the Records
  • Flooding - the risk to Landlords and Tenants
  • Infection control and Improvement Notices
  • Wet Floors Spell Danger
  • Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill 2007

March 2007

  • Property Law Update
  • Legal Update
  • MRSA Update
  • Regulation of Health Professionals - the White Paper
  • Outlook for Employment Law Changes in 2007
  • Violence in The Hospital

November 2006

  • CDM Changes
  • Change on Asbestos
  • A New Step - Lasting Powers of Attorney
  • Alert Notices Concerning Healthcare Professionals
  • Pay Protection for Junior Doctors
  • For the Electronic Record?

September 2006

  • Pitfalls in supply contracts
  • Northwick Park - Healthcare Commission Report
  • Confidentiality - a witness summons can give rise to an ethical dilemma
  • NCAS Performance Assessment Agreements are contractually binding
  • Impact of Corporate Manslaughter Bill on Trusts

July 2006

  • Bullying and harassment in the workplace
  • Integrating and revising equality duties
  • Personal privacy -v- freedom of information
  • Family friendly update: Looking towards 1st April 2007
  • Sex Discrimination: Beware of green-eyed monsters and lavatories
  • That's my decision

May 2006

  • Reform of the Coroners Service
  • Enforcement of Debts
  • Obstetrician acquitted of manslaughter
  • Another turn of the screw
  • ‘Triple Whammy’ for Trusts over Violence

March 2006

  • Dispute Resolution
  • En Garde! The New Licensing Regime for Security Guards and Security Service Providers.
  • Retained Organs litigation settled, but what of the future?
  • Mental Capacity - Looking Forward to Change
  • Expert Evidence, Witness Immunity and the Power of Regulatory Bodies to Discipline

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