The Department of Health and Social Care has announced there will be new mandatory training on autism and learning disabilities for all health and social care staff [1]. The decision was prompted by the death of Oliver McGowan who died…
The Care Quality Commission has fined Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust £16,250 for failing to comply with the Duty of Candour, in relation to incidents involving medication errors, delays in diagnosis and missed opportunities to investigate a patient’s deteriorating condition. CQC…
This article was also published on the Local Government Lawyer and Public Law Today websites. In Royal Borough of Greenwich v CDM [2019] EWCOP32, the court had to decide whether the assessment of capacity to make decisions about diabetic management is…
The focus of this case is whether the confinement of a young person aged 16-17 years-old, found not to be Gillick1 competent, amounted to a deprivation of his liberty where his parents had consented to such confinement. In a highly significant…
The Petitions Committee at the Welsh Assembly has issued several recommendations in response to a petition brought by Laura Williams regarding the accessibility of mental health care in Wales. The Chair of the Committee, Janet Finch-Saunders AM thanked the petitioner for…
The terms of reference for the two independent inquiries into the CQC’s regulation of Whorlton Hall are published on the CQC website. David Noble QSO is commissioned to undertake an independent review into how it dealt with concerns raised by Barry…
In Re NB [2019] EWCOP17, NB came to live in the UK in 1985 and married her husband (AU) abroad in 1992. The couple have been living together in London since 1997, following periods of separation and living abroad owing…
Reform of the statutory underpinnings for professional regulators in the health sector has had its fair share of false dawns over the last decade. Perhaps the most significant of those being the establishment of the Office of the Health Professions…
Following the death of 19-year old Mr Jamie Osborne on 12 February 2016, who was on remand at HMP Lewes, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) prosecuted Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (Sussex Partnership) in circumstances which the CQC reported as…
When CQC is proposing to take civil enforcement action without following an urgent process, then they will serve a Notice of Proposal on the registered provider. This notifies the provider of the action that the CQC is proposing. Commonly this is…
