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Regulating the Regulator – make yourselves heard
Throughout the pandemic, the CQC have kept their regulatory approach under review to recognise the changing pressures health and social care services find themselves under.
Newsflash: Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccinations in Health and Social Care Revoked
Hempsons legal experts discuss the latest VCod guidance
One slip gets you in a lot of trouble
We all know that we live in an increasingly regulated world, and particularly so in the healthcare sector. But have you ever thought about just how many sets of regulatory proceedings a doctor may face out of one incident?
Social Care Newsbrief autumn 2021
Read the autumn 2021 Social Care Newsbrief.
The Cumberlege Review – our safety cultures need a fix
Two recommendations could lead to far more information being published about individual practitioners’ areas of clinical accreditation and financial interests
Hempsons celebrate another great year in The Legal 500
We are delighted to announce another outstanding year for Hempsons in The Legal 500. Our team has been praised for its exceptional reputation and high quality of work over the past year.
Newsflash: GOC Guidance
Hempsons' Regulatory and Crime Team have put together a comprehensive summary of the guidance provided by the General Optical Council in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
How regulation has been impacted by the current coronavirus pandemic
This article will consider what is being expected of doctors who may not have been working in the NHS before the pandemic, how regulation has been amended to provide for this unprecedented situation, and how a doctor’s fitness to practise may still be investigated.
Regulation of Notifiable Diseases
From the 5 March 2020, Covid-19 was added to the list notifiable infectious diseases under the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010.
Stephen Hooper appears in The Leaders Council podcast
Stephen Hooper invited onto an episode of The Leaders Council podcast, which also included an interview with Lord Blunkett.