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Sports organisations and CQC registration
In the current era, there is an increasing focus on the role of medical and other healthcare professionals in sport. In a high performance environment where results are critical and margins are everything, significant pressure can be placed on the team doctor to ensure that a player is match fit or an athlete is able to race. The doctor's duties are to the athlete as their patient, not to a coach, manager or performance director. Organisations need to consider the structure that a team doctor sits in and who they are answerable to in terms of line management and ultimate professional accountability. For large organisations, there are obvious benefits in separating out the provision of primary care medical services and medical performance support.
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Why Healthcare Investors including REITs are becoming more than just Landlords
In October 2015 Fieldfisher published "The Age of Investment in UK Care Homes", a Perspective covering key areas for investors in care homes, including corporate activity, asset backed transactions, funding acquisitions and growth and regulation.
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Permission granted for Healthier Together judicial review
Following our earlier blog post on the decision of medics at Wythenshawe Hospital to challenge the decision by Healthier Together not to appoint it as a specialist site for emergency general surgery,
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Bootham Park Hospital closure – the regulatory background
CQC has ordered a mental health facility, offering both inpatient and outpatient services, to close immediately. At the same time its services, commissioned by a local CCG, were transferred between
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Healthier Together hospitals decision may be subject to judicial review
Medics at Wythenshawe Hospital may seek permission for judicial review of a decision on surgery specialist sites in Manchester.Healthier Together is a wide-ranging consultation on health and social
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Holyrood to consider opt-out organ donation
As Wales prepares to implement its own 'soft opt-out' system for organ donation, a Bill proposing a similar system in Scotland has been published.We have previously written about the Human
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Babylon – healthcare through your smartphone
The launch of a groundbreaking healthcare app shows the importance of regulation keeping pace with technology.Last week saw the launch of new healthcare app Babylon, offering a range of medical