Here is the round-up of the key Court of Protection cases from this quarter (September to December 2022), in which we believe our readers will be most interested. Please follow the link within the cas

Here is the round-up of the key Court of Protection cases from this quarter (September to December 2022), in which we believe our readers will be most interested. Please follow the link within the case summary to access the full judgment. Contact our team to discuss any particular case in more detail...

The Hewitt Review of Integrated Care Systems (ICS ) was published on 4 April 2023.

The objectives of the Review, commissioned by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in December 2022, included a requirement to make recommendations on ways “to empower local leaders to focus on improving population outcomes, giving them greater control while making them more accountable for performance and spending”. The output comprises some 36 recommendations on a range of key areas...

In January 2023, the government announced an additional £200 million fund to speed up hospital discharge, for ICBs to fund maximum stays of up to four weeks per person in care homes and other settings with wrap around support, with the money to be spent by the end of March....

Since October 2014 individuals eligible for NHS continuing healthcare, and children and young people’s continuing care, have had the right to have a personal health budget (PHB).

This right was extended to individuals in receipt of aftercare under section 117 of the Mental Health Act and for wheelchair budgets in December 2019...

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today announced that the implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) will not go ahead this side of a general election (anticipated to be in Autumn 2024)...

Jodey Whiting died by suicide on 21 February 2017 as a result of an overdose. In the period leading up to her death the DWP had withdrawn her benefits.

The view of the family was that this was a significant factor in her death, albeit without any objective evidence of the impact on Jodey’s state of mind...

When the UK hosted COP26 just over a year ago, it resulted in the Glasgow Climate Pact and committed the parties to it to reducing the use of coal, while promising more finance for developing countries to adapt to climate change and encouraging substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions...

The Children’s Code (officially, the ‘Age-Appropriate Design Code’) (Code) was published by the information Commissioner’s office (ICO) on 2 September 2021, and sets out standards which require online services including websites, apps, games, social media, streaming services and news services, to provide better privacy protections for children in the digital world in order to comply with UK data protection law...

NHS England’s Capital guidance 2023/24 includes details of steps which ICBs and providers are being asked to take in relation to NHS national capital programmes including diagnostics....

Welcome to the first Newsletter of 2023. We are now well into the new year and, despite the ongoing global uncertainty, we now have some idea of what 2023 will bring...

Unlike most natural causes deaths that occur in the community, the law states that a Coroner must hold an inquest where the deceased has died whilst in custody or state detention...