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Podcast: Complex hospital discharges

In this episode, healthcare advisory partner Sophie Bowes provides a concise yet comprehensive guide to managing complex hospital discharges. She explores the discharge to assess model, the importance of robust internal discharge policies, escalation procedures for delayed discharges, and recent legal cases that shape best practice. Learn how to ensure safe, timely patient discharges, avoid common pitfalls, and protect your organisation from legal challenges.

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DNACPR Orders and COVID-19

In this article, Sophie Barbour explores what the law says about the way that DNACPR orders should be made in more detail and consider some practical solutions to difficulties being faced by clinicians in view of COVID-19.

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Newsflash: Hospital Resources Amid Covid-19

On 9 April 2020, Chamberlain J. handed down his judgment in the case of University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v MB [2020] 882 (QB) in which Hempsons and Simon Sinnatt, Counsel from 1 Crown Office Row Chambers, represented UCLH.

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