The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) recently overturned and Employment Tribunal's (ET) decision that a Trust’s treatment of a woman on maternity leave amounted to pregnancy and maternity discrimination under the Equality Act 2010.

After a great few days at the NHF Finance Conference in Liverpool, here are some of the key messages that we picked up:

The Court of Appeal found that a compensatory rest break does not need to be provided as a continuous 20 minute period.

Following the collapse of Carillion and the termination of Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust's PF2 scheme (where Carillion left a half built hospital),

Our latest monthly roundup of must read #ukhousing case law.

There is good news for the housing sector in today's spring statement. Philip Hammond has repeated the Government's desire to "fix the broken housing market" and has provided tangible support - the Government

The ICO has recently published a blog post on responding to subject access requests, designed for GPs, but of use for all healthcare organisations. Among the tips from the ICO:

Before practices can form long lasting, effective working relationships with other practices and healthcare professionals, they need to make sure that their own “houses are in order."

The CQC has recently fined an NHS Trust for not complying with the Duty of Candour by virtue of a delay in providing an apology to the family as required by the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.

In this edition of Housing Development in Review we review three key developments this year that our experts consider will dominate the housing agenda in 2019.

The recent focus on workforce diversity throughout organisations and in senior positions has led to an increased use of positive action legislation.

The new Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service (DES) was announced in the recently-published Five Year GP Contract Framework.