Holly Bridden

7th Floor, 85 Fleet Street
London EC4Y 1AE
Email: holly.bridden@rlb-law.com

Holly is a Solicitor in our Healthcare Providers team. Holly joined the firm in September 2015.
Experience
Holly provides advice to health and social care providers and insurers across a broad range of matters, including:
– CQC enforcement action, including representations to Warning Notices, Notices of Proposal and Section 31 Notices
– Factual Accuracy responses and Ratings Reviews
– CQC registration queries in respect of proposed variations to existing registrations and new provider applications
– Appeals against Notices of Decision to the First-Tier Tribunal
– CQC prosecutions
– Judicial Review
– Safeguarding investigations
– Prosecutions for fire safety failings
– Preparation for Inquests and representation
– Court of Protection proceedings
– Data Protection
– the Mental Health Act
– the Mental Capacity Act
– Internal Policies and protocols with external agencies
– Responses to Complaints
– Clinical negligence and Human Rights Act claims
– NHS Continuing Healthcare and disputes arising from unilateral withdrawal of funding.
Holly develops and delivers tailored training sessions for providers as required.
- Care in Lockdown 2
16 November 2020 | Care homes | Healthcare - LPS Update – Care Home Manager role on hold, full implementation of LPS by April 2022
11 November 2020 | Care homes | Healthcare - HSE to commence spot checks of care homes
23 October 2020 | Health and safety | Healthcare - Right support, right care, right culture – CQC guidance for autism and learning disability
12 October 2020 | Care homes | Healthcare | Mental health law - Duty of candour – first prosecution brought by the CQC for breach
25 September 2020 | Healthcare - Court of Protection Practice in light of Covid-19
26 March 2020 | Care homes | Healthcare | Healthcare Professionals - Ethical principles to underpin decisions in adult social care
25 March 2020 | Care homes | Healthcare | Healthcare Professionals | Mental health law - The Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020
25 March 2020 | Healthcare - COVID-19 guidance for residential care providers
24 March 2020 | Care homes | Healthcare - Shielding the most vulnerable living in care homes during the coronavirus outbreak
24 March 2020 | Care homes | Healthcare - Amending the Mental Health Act: Part 5 – Amendments to affect people with learning disabilities and/or autism?
12 March 2020 | Mental health law - Spotting a ‘closed culture’ – CQC inspections
18 February 2020 | Care homes - Children’s homes and healthcare: Registration issues
10 February 2020 | Care homes | Healthcare | Mental health law - ‘Right to be heard’: Response to the consultation on learning disability and autism training for health and care staff (November 2019)
3 February 2020 | Care homes | Healthcare | Mental health law - Frontline health and care staff need to better understand the lives and needs of LGBT people
21 January 2020 | Care homes | Healthcare - Dental Health Care must improve says CQC
31 July 2019 | Care homes - Appeal against F-tT decision confirming urgent cancellation order of Magistrates Court
26 July 2019 | Care homes - Care Home Prosecution – Deceased resident found trapped between bed and bed rails
25 July 2019 | Care homes - Medicines Management – What adult social care providers can do to improve
24 July 2019 | Care homes - CQC – Segregation may be breaching human rights
19 July 2019 | Care homes | Mental health law - Inquiries into CQC regulation
18 July 2019 | Care homes | Healthcare | Mental health law - Capacity to consent to sexual relations may be person specific test
16 July 2019 | Care homes | Healthcare | Mental health law - Care homes briefing 192 – Capacity: Social media and internet use
18 April 2019 | Care homes | Healthcare | Mental health law - Healthcare briefing – How to respond to police requests for patient records
3 April 2019 | Care homes | Healthcare | Mental health law | Primary care - Care homes briefing 191 – Care homes must urgently review fire safety – Serious breaches found by London Fire Brigade
1 March 2019 | Care homes - CQC briefing – CQC guidance: Sexuality and relationship needs of service users
1 March 2019 | Care homes | Healthcare - CQC briefing – ‘Sexual safety on mental health wards’
19 December 2018 | Care homes | Healthcare | Mental health law - Care homes briefing 190 – £300,000 fine for failure to protect service users from sexual harm
19 December 2018 | Care homes - Care homes briefing 180 – Driving improvement: A CQC resource for adult social care providers
30 July 2018 | Care homes | Healthcare | Primary care - GDPR – Privacy notices
14 March 2018 | Healthcare - GDPR – Data subjects’ rights
14 March 2018 | Healthcare - CQC briefing – Updated guidance in respect of Regulation 5: Fit and Proper Persons: Directors
6 March 2018 | Care homes | Healthcare - CQC briefing – New CQC guidance on assessing the financial viability of providers applying for registration
1 March 2018 | Care homes | Healthcare - GDPR – Lawful grounds for processing data
15 February 2018 | Healthcare - Mental health law briefing 244 – Guidance to changes made by the Policing and Crime Act to police powers and places of safety provisions in the Mental Health Act
2 November 2017 | Mental health law | Primary care - GDPR in the health and social care sector
13 October 2017 | Care homes | Healthcare | Mental health law | Primary care - Care home briefing 168 – Visiting in care homes
15 May 2017 | Care homes