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The health and social care sector has had a busy few months, as the new NHS structure beds in and the government consults on further changes to that will impact on health and social care services.
Meanwhile, local authorities and NHS organisations have been challenged by service users and providers in respect of how services are delivered and commissioned.
This post is a round up of legal news in the sector from March to August 2013.
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Our third post on key developments in public procurement policy that lawyers advising in this area need to be aware of covers the period from June to August 2013. It does not consider case law, which is covered in our monthly public procurement case digest. For a summary of the latest cases, see Public procurement case digest – July 2013.
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As the Care Bill makes its way through the Parliamentary process it feels rather churlish not to give it a warm welcome. Many of its provisions seem like timely and appropriate antidotes to recent difficulties in the health and social care sector:
The new duties on local authorities to promote integration of care and support services with health services and to co-operate with NHS bodies are essential to complete the statutory foundation of integration started in the Health & Social Care Act 2012. The new national eligibility framework for adult care and support is much needed and long-awaited. But how far will the Bill actually take us towards a system for social care provision that will meet society’s needs and enable us to safeguard vulnerable people?
In this first of a two part discussion on the Care Bill, Ros Ashcroft, Associate at DAC Beachcroft LLP, considers the main provisions of the Bill and to what extent they highlight current tensions in the social care sector.
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With desks being cleared before the Summer holidays, July was a busy month for procurement case law with UK decisions on specific disclosure, limitation periods and amending claim forms and the latest from the ECJ on development agreements.
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This is the third in our series of quarterly local government update blogs which will enable readers to catch up on the most important cases, issues or developments in local government since May 2013.
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