Mills & Reeve | Health and care

🎧 🌍 Podcast: Healthcare: Australia and UK trends Health and care partners, Jill Mason and Julian Smith join Alison Choy Flannigan of Hall & Wilcox to discuss a range healthcare trends in the UK and Australia. Jill, Julian and Alison cover a range of issues that will be of interest to Australian healthcare and tech businesses interested in entering the UK health and care sector. Tune in ⤵ Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gfWaiQdf Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gQk2as42 #internationalmergersandacquistions #healthcare #healthtech #healthcaretrendsUK #cqcregulation Christine Joyce, Tom Pickthorn

💡 💻 The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024: consumer protection issues for the health and care sector A major new law affecting a range of business activity has recently passed. We consider how it's likely to affect the #healthandcare sector in a series of articles. Here, Katrina Anderson looks at the changes to consumer protection law. The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 was finalised on 24 May 2024, and is expected to start coming into force in October 2024. https://lnkd.in/eYnMaqha #consumerprotection #DigitalMarketsCompetitionConsumersAct #healthtech #digitalhealth #healthcare #FemTechApps Jill Mason, Kate Newman, Charlotte Lewis, Sophie Burton-Jones, Stephanie Caird, Paul Hilder

🔔 Landmark decision on belief and the mental capacity test Neil Ward reviews a new Court of Appeal decision that confirms there is no “belief” requirement in the ‘functional’ aspect of the mental capacity test and that no further “gloss” is required on the statutory wording of the Mental Capacity Act. Read Neil's blog ⤵ https://lnkd.in/eFdVVy8W #mentalcapacity #CourtofProtection #mentalcapacityassessements #belief #healthcare #commissioners #nhsproviders Jill Mason, Leah Selkirk, Isobel Matthews, Holly Morrison-Carter, Katie Pilcher, Lucy Johnston, Claire Bridgman

🔸 New FAQs on NHS Provider Selection Regime 🔸 We're now over seven months since the Provider Selection Regime, the new rules that govern the procurement of health care services in England came into force. So, how are we all getting on with the new regime? To support NHS professionals involved in contracting of health care services, NHS England has updated its set of FAQs on the PSR. Read Rona McPherson's latest blog to find out more ⤵. There is also a reminder to start thinking about the Annual Summary commissioners are required to complete. https://lnkd.in/gbN3qqUM #procurement #healthprocurement #ProviderSelectionRegime #FAQs #healthcareservices #commissioners #IntegratedCareBoards #NHS Shailee H., Claire Crawford, Charlotte Lewis, Jenny Beresford-Jones, Jill Mason

🗓 We are thrilled to be joining Aon at its upcoming Health and Social Care conference on Tuesday 3 September. 🔍 The day will focus on Risk, Retention, Regulation & Discrimination Join Jill Mason, Amanda Narkiewicz and Stuart Craig who will be sharing insights on: 🔸 Duty of Candour: Have the aims been achieved after 10 years? 🔸 CQC's Single Assessment Framework 🔸 Strategies to tackle workplace discrimination, including racism If you're interested in attending the conference you can register using this link: https://lnkd.in/ends6Eu4 Do say hello to Jill, Amanda and Stuart if you're planning on attending. #dutyofcandour #cqcregulation #employmentlaw #workplacediscrimination #SingleAssessmentFramework #patientsafety #riskmanagement Mark Riley-Pitt Lorraine Roberts-Rance Claire Howarth

📢 Are you in Manchester on 4 September and interested in hearing more about patient care? Our Mills & Reeve Manchester office are hosting pro-manchester's conference on Putting patient's first: unveiling healthcare realities in Greater Manchester. ⭕ This event is essential for professionals in #healthcare, the #tech industry, and professional services. If your work impacts #patientcare, your decisions are ultimately shaped by patient needs. Gain invaluable insights by hearing directly from patients, the end users of healthcare services. Follow the link below to register ⏬ https://lnkd.in/eYH74VM3 Charlotte Lewis #patientvoice #patientsafety

🏥 🏠 The Building Safety Act: what you need to know 📯 Join our next Foundations webinar on the Building Safety Act where our experts will discuss some of the issues the construction sector is facing arising from the Act and the supporting regulations. The session will have a particular emphasis on the regulations that came into force on 1 October 2023 (some of which apply to any buildings of any height), emerging market practices and key points to bear in mind going forwards. If you're a developer of healthcare premises this webinar is a must. Please click the link ⬇ for further information and to register https://lnkd.in/eatEXHEq #buildingsafetyact #construction #healthcare #realestate #hospitals #regulations #nhsproviders #privatehospitals #carehomes Stuart Pemble, Iain M., Dominic Jones, Alison Garrett, Elizabeth Corke-Webster Victoria Hughes-Barker Jill Mason

❗ Safe and effective reporting on suicides: a reminder How we communicate about suicide both in the media and in prevention messages is important. Responsible reporting of suicide in the media is a key strand of suicide prevention, and a central feature of the national suicide prevention strategy in England. Jill Mason in her latest blog highlights the risks associated with poor reporting and sets out best practices from the Samaritans' media guidelines which are endorsed by the Zero Suicide Alliance. Follow the link below to read Jill's blog ⏬ https://lnkd.in/ev-HmSiy #suicideprevention #suicidestrategy #inquests #socialmedia #responsiblereporting #suicides #inquests Professor Louis Appleby, Neil Ward, Claire Bridgman

💡 Upper Tribunal decision provides useful guidance on two issues: 📌 Conduct of proceedings before the SEND Tribunal where an issue of litigation capacity arises 📌The Overlap between Health and Social Care provision in an EHCP Read Kevin Duce's latest blog post on the decision to find out more -link 👇 https://lnkd.in/efKb8RRz #SEND #UpperTribunal #EHCP #litigationcapacity Jill Mason Neil Ward

📯 New FAQs on applying the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework outside of NHS trusts Jill Mason looks at NHS England's FAQs which help clarify how PSIRF can be applied in non-NHS trust organisations. Follow the link below to read the full blog post ⬇ https://lnkd.in/eAhfdHZk #patientsafety #investigations #healthcare #PatientSafetyIncidentResponseFramework #learning #dutyofcandour #riskmanagement #privateproviders