The Report of the Inquiry into Health and Social Care and LGBT Communities was published at the end of 2019. Conducted by the Women and Equalities Committee the Inquiry focussed on: discrimination faced by LGBT communities in day to day interactions…
Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights (‘ECHR’), as enacted in the Human Rights Act 1998, protects the right to life. It has been interpreted as having implications for the way an Inquest is conducted, if it is…
The body that represents medical students and doctors in the UK has published its manifesto for health which aims to improve patient care and the working life of doctors in the UK. BMA Council Chair Chaand Nagpul has warned of…
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…
