Healthcare Law Brief

Key employment law developments for early 2025 - care providers should act now to prepare for change

Tuesday, 25 February 2025

Employers and social care providers will face changes to employment law, including enhanced penalties for failure to collectively consult, increased staffing costs, and the implementation of neonatal leave and pay.

Key employment law developments for early 2025 - care providers should act now to prepare for change

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Navigating insolvency risks: directors’ duties for care home professionals

Tuesday, 25 February 2025

Operating a care home is becoming increasingly challenging as providers navigate economic pressures, stringent regulatory requirements, and the growing demands of an ageing population.

Navigating insolvency risks: directors’ duties for care home professionals

Articles & Blogs Healthcare

Key takeaways from our recent Healthcare advisers event

Tuesday, 25 February 2025

On the 30th January 2025 we welcomed healthcare specialist accountants, solicitors, surveyors, bank representatives and other professionals to our office to discuss key issues affecting the sector. Here's what we learnt.

Key takeaways from our recent Healthcare advisers event

Articles & Blogs Healthcare

GP Premises options for future planning

Tuesday, 25 February 2025

It can be hard to know where to turn when starting to think about your future as a GP Partner. So, what can you do to be prepared for retirement and succession?

Articles & Blogs Healthcare

Pharmacy Dispensing Robots - what to consider when your pharmacy tenant wants to install one

Tuesday, 28 January 2025

We have seen an increase in the number of enquiries from GP landlords relating to the installation of Pharmacy Dispensing Robots by their pharmacy tenants. Below we outline the key things to consider before providing your consent.

Pharmacy Dispensing Robots - what to consider when your pharmacy tenant wants to install one

Articles & Blogs Healthcare

Clarifying the claiming period for PPA drugs under the GMS Statement of Financial Entitlements

Tuesday, 28 January 2025

Some practices have problems claiming reimbursement for drugs. Some have been told by ICBs or NHSE that their claims are too late and can't be processed or paid. A common question is about the period within which claims can be submitted.

Clarifying the claiming period for PPA drugs under the GMS Statement of Financial Entitlements

Articles & Blogs Healthcare

Care home terms - making resident agreements work for you

Tuesday, 28 January 2025

For care home owners and managers looking after residents is always going to be the priority but residents are also purchasers of a service and occupiers of a commercial property, so it is important to consider the legal relationship.

Care home terms - making resident agreements work for you

Articles & Blogs Healthcare

Do GP practices always have to pass on pay uplifts to salaried GPs?

Monday, 16 December 2024

It may not be as simple as the BMA suggests, and practices may well not be subject to a legal obligation to backdate any pay award, even if funding is notionally provided for them to do so.

Do GP practices always have to pass on pay uplifts to salaried GPs?

Articles & Blogs Healthcare

Provider Selection Regime: challenging an award

Monday, 16 December 2024

The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 (PSR) came into force on 1 January 2024. In this article we explore how an award for a contract for the provision of NHS healthcare services can be challenged.

Provider Selection Regime: challenging an award

Articles & Blogs Employment Healthcare

Social care: a vision for the future

Monday, 16 December 2024

Following this year's Healthcare Summit, we provide a summary of the key challenges, developments and reforms that lie ahead for the care home sector in the future.

Articles & Blogs Healthcare

Clarifying the Claiming Period for PPA Drugs under the GMS Statement of Financial Entitlements

Friday, 29 November 2024

Some practices have problems claiming reimbursement for drugs. Some have been told by ICBs or NHSE that their claims are too late and can't be processed or paid. A common question is about the period within which claims can be submitted.

Articles & Blogs Healthcare

Welsh Practice Management Conference 2024 - A Review

Friday, 29 November 2024

On 6 November we welcomed Practice Managers and GPs from across Wales to our 2024 Welsh Practice Management Conference at two venues, in Cardiff and North Wales. Here's what we found.

Welsh Practice Management Conference 2024 - A Review

Articles & Blogs Healthcare

Powers of Attorney and obtaining retired partners' signatures to property documentation

Friday, 29 November 2024

When a partner leaves a partnership there can be difficulties in obtaining their signature to property documentation where the relationship with the retired partner has deteriorated or contact has been lost. We outline a potential solution.

Powers of Attorney and obtaining retired partners' signatures to property documentation

Articles & Blogs Healthcare

Staffing pitfalls arising on the closure of a care home and the transfer of its service users and care workers to a third party

Thursday, 31 October 2024

The EAT have examined the consequences of transferring care workers with privately and Local Authority funded service users to new providers following closure of a care home and employment liabilities that may transfer if TUPE Regulations are engaged.

Staffing pitfalls arising on the closure of a care home and the transfer of its service users and care workers to a third party

Articles & Blogs Healthcare

Rebuilding trust - what does the CQC have planned?

Thursday, 31 October 2024

The Care Roadshow South 2024 and Healthcare Summit 2024 both provided many insights into recent sector developments - most notably on the CQC developments and what providers can anticipate as CQC attempts to rebuild trust with the sector and the public.

Rebuilding trust - what does the CQC have planned?

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