healthcare providers

How Whistleblowing Can Negatively Affect Your Care Business – A Whistle Stop Tour On Whistleblowing

The 23 June was World Whistle-blower’s day, so it seemed timely to reflect on the subject, in particular a reminder of the law, updates to relevant guidance, the CQC’s approach to whistleblowing and best practice for providers. Law Whistleblowing legislation was implemented 25 years ago, through the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (“PIDA”) being incorporated …

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Challenging The Fees That Local Authorities Pay To Care Providers

Care providers often come to us with concerns they face with local authorities failing to meet the cost of providing care at the standard that providers themselves deem necessary to maintain compliance with the regulations.  Providers complain of being largely ignored by those in charge of making such decisions within the local authority and many …

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Professional Discipline: What Does It Actually Mean To Be ‘Professionally Regulated’?

Whilst many students or trainees have a vague idea of what it means to be professionally regulated, they will only truly understand the full extent of their professional obligations when they join the register and face the stark reality of potentially receiving a patient complaint or being brought before their regulator. This article aims to …

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One year on: How is CQC’s regulatory model working in practice and what will change?

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health and social care landscape has changed dramatically including in relation to the way in which the CQC regulates the sector. In May 2021, the CQC published its strategy, ‘A new strategy for the changing world of health and social care – CQC’s strategy from 2021’ which …

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An Update in Relation to the Implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards

In due course, the Liberty Protection Safeguards (“LPS”), introduced under Schedule 1 to the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019 (“MC(A)A 2019”) will replace the current Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (“DoLS”) set out in the Mental Capacity Act 2005. However, before this happens there are a few hurdles to cross, as detailed below. On 10 March …

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