The Department of Health and Social Care has amended the National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Nursing Care and issued a new version of the framework in March 2018.

Claims resulting from slips and trips form a significant part of the caseload for many personal injury departments.

It has never been more important for those who face potential claims and their Insurers to fully investigate and obtain evidence from the outset.

We are seeing a growing number of claims for psychiatric injury arising from healthcare employees who are overworked and under supported, and those claiming that they have been bullied or harassed in the workplace.

There are some cases where the facts are such that erasure of a doctor is the only proper and reasonable sanction. Dr Bawa-Garba’s case was not one of them.

It's out! Finally, after weeks of waiting, the Social Housing Green Paper has been released today. Our housing experts have been busy analysing the paper and set out the below summary of what you need to know.

Freedom of Information requests have revealed that the NHS continues to rely on vital agency workers to fill staffing gaps in frontline NHS services.

See our August housing case law round-up.

To welcome Puja to the firm we asked her to address some of the most common questions we receive on this topic from GPs and Practice Managers.

The end of MedTech week coincides with the start of a new football season. In a week when the father of a schoolboy footballer who sadly collapsed during a football match and died three days later from an underlying undiagnosed cardiac condition

Capsticks’ bi-weekly roundup of insights and news stories affecting emergency services.

CCGs and NHS England are under obligations in exercising their functions to have regard to the need to reduce health inequalities. Almost all public authorities are under obligations to have due regard to the need to reduce inequalities