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			        <title><![CDATA[Health and Social Care Update - May 2013]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<P>This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. </P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Health and Social Care Update - April 2013]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<P>This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. </P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Health and Social Care Update - March 2013]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<P>This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. </P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Employment Eye: February 2013]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<P>Welcome to the February 2013 edition of Employment Eye our monthly&nbsp;newsletter&nbsp;with information&nbsp;on the latest employment law developments and how they should be implemented.</P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[The inside track on the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry: Five questions for Bevan Brittan’s adviser to the CQC]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<P>In a follow-up to our <A title="" href="http://www.bevanbrittan.com/articles/Pages/MidStaffordshireNHSInquiryReport-KeypointsWorkforceIssues.aspx" target="">recent alert&nbsp;</A>on the report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Inquiry, Julian Hoskins discusses the practical impact of the report on workforce issues, in a Q&amp;A with Carlton Sadler - the Bevan Brittan Senior Associate who led the team advising one of the core participants in the Inquiry, the Care Quality Commission. </P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Young, gifted and broke: Age-related redundancy payments]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[In <EM>Lockwood v Department of Work and Pensions</EM>, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has confirmed that an enhanced redundancy payment for older workers did not amount to direct age discrimination, when objectively justified by a strong social policy objective.&nbsp; In this case, the strong social policy objective was the provision of a 'financial cushion' for older workers that reflected the extra difficulties they experienced after losing their jobs.&nbsp; George Pennington explains more.]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Mid Staffordshire NHS Inquiry Report – Implications for Foundation Trust Governors]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<P>Governance was a central theme of Robert Francis QC’s report on the failings at Stafford Hospital. While Foundation Trust boards and various regulators bore the brunt of the criticisms, the report also has implications for Foundation Trust governors.</P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Mid Staffordshire NHS Inquiry Report - Key points: Clinical Governance]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<UL>
<P>The lessons learned and recommendations set out in the Francis report are clearly intended to have an impact outside Stafford Hospital. Among many problems highlighted the report identifies: </P>
<LI>A lack of openness to criticism</LI>
<LI>A lack of consideration for patients</LI>
<LI>Defensiveness</LI></UL>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Mid Staffordshire NHS Inquiry Report - Key points: Workforce Issues]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<P>As Mr Francis QC points out in the report, much has been said about whistleblowing during the Inquiry, and much has been written about it since the Inquiry concluded. It is clear from the report that, while Mid Staffordshire had in place a whistleblowing policy and procedure, it faced serious difficulties in the implementation of that policy. </P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Health and Social Care Update - February 2013]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<P>This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. </P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Health and Social Care Update - January 2013]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<P>This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. </P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Lessons from Mid Staffordshire – What does the board of a health organisation need to know?]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<p>Robert Francis QC’s report into the Mid Staffordshire Inquiry is due to be issued to the Secretary of State in January 2013.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Whilst the Inquiry’s detailed findings and recommendations are awaited, an examination of the evidence identifies a range of themes to which the sector should have regard in anticipation of the final report and beyond.&nbsp; In this alert, we focus on the theme of the effectiveness of provider boards. </p>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Health and Social Care Update - December 2012]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<P>This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. </P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Health and Social Care Update - November 2012]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<P>This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. </P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Claims Online - Autumn 2012 Cases Review]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Our usual review of interesting cases that have caught our attention.]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Claims Online - The Jackson reforms: where are we now?]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritūs Sancti. Musketeers. Bee Gees. Wise men. Whether it is the Trinitarian formula, Dumas’ swashbuckling heroes, the brothers Gibb or gift-bearing Magi from the East, many good things undeniably come in threes. With this in mind, what follows should be read as the third - and final - instalment of my series of articles on the progress of the Jackson reforms, tracing developments from the publication of Sir Rupert’s final report in December 2009 to the cusp of implementation.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Claims Online: Damages - the discount rate]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial">The Ministry of Justice has launched a consultation into how the discount rate used to determine the amount of future losses in personal injury claims should be set.<SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN>The fundamental issue at the heart of the consultation is the extent to which seriously injured Claimants should be regarded as a special class of citizens who require a higher level of financial protection than the rest of society.</SPAN></P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Claims Online: Meet the NHS LA Chief Executive Catherine Dixon]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<P>Joanna Lloyd, puts a number of questions to the new Chief Executive of the NHS Litigation Authority, Catherine Dixon. Catherine was previously General Counsel and Company Secretary at the NSPCC, working as part of the Executive Team. </P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[CQC registration for GPs]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<P>Much work has been undertaken by CQC, in conjunction with GPs across the country, to simplify and test the application process.&nbsp; The application forms are submitted online and CQC anticipates that they should take providers less than 2 hours to complete.&nbsp; However, although completion of the form itself may be straight forward, the whole process of ensuring providers are properly prepared to make the application, and geared to deal with ongoing monitoring of compliance following the grant of registration, raises important questions for GPs to consider:&nbsp; </P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Patient safety and clinical governance - The vital importance of robust record keeping]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<P>Robust record keeping is vital to patient safety, quality of care and the demands of clinical governance. Inadequate medical records mean that some litigation claims cannot be properly defended and need to be settled out of court.</P>
<P>This article by Georgia Ford and Claire Bentley looks at some of the key issues that health professionals need to be familiar with in order to properly fulfil their duties to patients and to protect themselves and their employer.</P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[The responsibilities of doctors in protecting children and young people]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<P>Claire Bentley and Deborah Jeremiah review the updated guidance developed by the General Medical Council&nbsp;following concerns that high profile cases and a fear of complaints by parents were deterring doctors from raising child protection concerns.&nbsp; </P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Health and Social Care Update]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<P>This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. </P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Health and Social Care Update - September]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<P>This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. </P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Health and Social Care Update - August]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<P>This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. </P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Health and Social Care Update - July 2012]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month.]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Academic Health Science Networks: Expressions of interest sought]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<P>Following the publication of Innovation Health and Wealth in December 2011 the Department of Health agreed to work with the NHS, universities and industry to designate Academic Health Science Networks (AHSN). The first networks are to go live in 2012/13.</P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Clinical Commissioning Groups’ authorisation: Detailed requirements]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[The Department of Health has now made the first set of regulations governing the activities of Clinical Commissioning Groups which focus very much on the authorisation process. The National Health Service (Clinical Commissioning Groups) Regulations 2012 cover a number of different points.]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[PIP breast implants - Joanna Lloyd examines the road ahead]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[The NHS Medical Director’s expert group, which has been looking at PIP (Poly Implant Prothèse) breast implants has now published its final report. Led by Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, the group has been collecting and reviewing all available data including estimated rupture rates as well as data on clinical findings when implants are removed. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Health and Social Care Update - June 2012]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<p>This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. </p>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[<P>This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. </P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Health and Social Care Update - March 2012]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<P>This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. </P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Health and Social Care Update - January 2012]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<p>This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. </p>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Health and Social Care Update - December 2011]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<p>This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. </p>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Health and Social Care Update November 2011]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<p>This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. </p>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[The withdrawal of life sustaining treatment]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<DIV><SPAN class=702243209-03102011>Consideration of the case of W-v-M and S and A NHS Primary Care Trust, EWHC 2443, 28/09/11, the first in which a court was asked to consider whether it was in the best interests of a patient in a 'minimally conscious state' to withdraw life sustaining treatment.</SPAN></DIV>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Health and Social Care Update October 2011]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<P>This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. </P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[<P>This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. </P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[<P>This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. </P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[<P>This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. </P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Health and Social Care Update May 2011]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Landmark decision in corporate manslaughter case]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<P>Management teams in councils up and down the land will remember the discussions that took place a couple of years ago, on the introduction of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007. Whereas previously, proof was needed that a “directing mind” of an organisation was personally guilty of manslaughter, now an organisation would be guilty of an offence if its activities are managed in way that causes a person’s death and amounts to a gross breach of a relevant duty of care. By focusing more on senior management actions (rather than those who lead the business) the Act ultimately makes it easier to prosecute organisations.</P>
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			        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month.]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Health and Social Care Update November 2010]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[<P>In this month's edition we highlight the following items of interest:</P>
<UL>
<LI>Bribery Act 2010: Ministry of Justice consultation on draft guidance</LI>
<LI>Liquidated damages: High Court holds that a "commercially justifiable" clause was not a penalty and was enforceable</LI>
<LI>Revisions to the Technology and Construction Court Guide </LI>
<LI>Electronic disclosure of documents in litigation - new Practice Direction</LI>
<LI>Consolidated Building Regulations to come into force on 1 October</LI>
<LI>New agreement to improve health and safety on construction sites</LI>
<LI>International Chamber of Commerce issues revised Incoterms</LI></UL>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[The Ministry of Justice has published, on 23 September 2010, its third summary of the reports by Coroners to it under Rule 43 of the Coroner’s Rules 1984 and the responses to those reports by the reported organisations.&nbsp; It bears thorough reading as it makes clear the trends in reporting by coroners and the issues requiring such reports.]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[<P>In this edition we highlight the following recent developments of interest:</P>
<UL>
<LI>Extensions of time: causation, concurrent delay events and critical path analysis&nbsp;</LI>
<LI>"Best endeavours", "reasonable endeavours" and "all reasonable but commercially prudent endeavours" - is there a difference?&nbsp; </LI>
<LI>Adjudicator bias?</LI>
<LI>Retention of title clause ineffective where contract allowed "revolving stock" sales</LI>
<LI>Procure 21+ finally launched</LI>
<LI>Failure to finalise contract terms resulted in unlimited liability.</LI></UL>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[<P>In this month's digest we highlight the following developments of interest:</P>
<UL>
<LI>Contract management: National Audit Office Report on the performance of hospital PFI projects</LI>
<LI>Professional negligence: Overvaluation not&nbsp; negligent despite errors</LI>
<LI>Construction Projects: Recovering costs and losses from professional advisers</LI>
<LI>Time limit for making claim for loss and expense held to be a condition precedent. </LI>
<LI>Entire agreement clause did not prevent rectification</LI>
<LI>Why you should question offers which seem too good to be true</LI>
<LI>Withdrawal of Part 36 offer</LI>
<LI>74 hours delay in delivering Decision made adjudicator's Decision unenforceable</LI>
<LI>The importance of complying with contractual notice provisions</LI></UL>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[<P>In this month's digest we highlight the following developments of interest:</P>
<UL>
<LI><A class="" title="" href="#bribery" target="">The new Bribery Act -&nbsp;avoid&nbsp;criminal conviction for "failing to prevent bribery" </A></LI>
<LI><A title="" href="#termination" target="">Termination of contracts: deciding on grounds and drafting termination notices</A></LI>
<LI><A title="" href="#interest" target="">Interest on late payment of commercial debts </A></LI>
<LI><A title="" href="#tolent" target="">Adjudication:&nbsp;"Multi-party joinder" and "Tolent" costs clauses</A></LI>
<LI><A title="" href="#third party" target="">The Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act 2010</A></LI>
<LI><A title="" href="#significant" target="">Adjudication: an adjudicator's decision not to address a significant issue meant his award was not enforceable</A></LI>
<LI><A title="" href="#payment" target="">30 day payment clauses in Government contracts</A></LI>
<LI><A title="" href="#tendering" target="">E-tendering in public procurement</A></LI></UL>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Commercial Dispute Resolution Update]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[This update is relevant to anyone interested in recent developments in the dispute resolution field. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[<div id="ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_BodyTextField__ControlWrapper_RichHtmlField" style="display:inline">
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<p>In this month's digest&nbsp;we highlight&nbsp; the following developments of interest:</p>
<ul>
<li><span>Contract formation: Letters of intent,&nbsp;&quot;subject to contract&quot; and&nbsp;waiver by conduct&nbsp;</span></li>
<li><span><span>Drafting &quot;pay when paid&quot; clauses which are effective upon upstream insolvency</span></span></li>
<li><span>Drafting exclusion clauses to exclude liability for statutory interest</span></li>
<li><span><span>Settling construction disputes - some points to consider</span></span></li>
<li><span><span>The Equality Bill: Impact on the construction sector</span></span></li>
<li><span><span>HSE crackdown on dangerous construction sites</span></span></li>
<li><span><span>New HSE Guidance: &quot;Provision of welfare facilities during construction work&quot;</span></span></li></ul></div></div>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[<P><SPAN>The Supreme Court on appeal from the Court of Appeal, has given an important judgment in <A title="" href="http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKSC/2010/14.html" target=_blank>RTS Flexible Systems Limited v Molkerei Alois Müller Gmbh &amp; Company KG (UK Production) ("RTS").&nbsp; </A>This will be of relevance to parties who continue works after the expiry of a letter of intent but before a formal written contract is finalised, and to those who intend to rely on "subject to contract" and "counterparts" clauses in contracts.</SPAN><SPAN></P>
<P>In this article&nbsp;we&nbsp;summarise the facts and issues in the case, and provide some learning points to consider when dealing with these areas in the future. </P></SPAN>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[There are many factors to address when settling any dispute, including the parties to be bound, dealing with any formal proceedings, payment provisions, the scope of the settlement, costs and interest. In this note we highlight some particular points to consider when settling construction disputes.]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month.]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[This Update prepared by <A title="" href="mailto:claire.bentley@bevanbrittan.com?subject=subscribe to HSC update" target="">Claire Bentley</A>&nbsp;contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Commercial Dispute Resolution Update]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[This update is relevant to anyone interested in recent developments in the dispute resolution field. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[This Update prepared by <A title="" href="http://www.bevanbrittan.com/people/Pages/ClaireBentley.aspx" target="">Claire Bentley</A>&nbsp;contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. <BR>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[This update is relevant to anyone interested in recent developments in the dispute resolution field. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[<P>This Update prepared by <A title="" href="http://www.bevanbrittan.com/people/Pages/ClaireBentley.aspx" target="">Claire Bentley</A>&nbsp;contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. </P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Commercial Dispute Resolution Update]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[This update is relevant to anyone interested in recent developments in the dispute resolution field.]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[This Update prepared by Claire Bentley contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. ]]></description>
			        <link><![CDATA[http://www.bevanbrittan.com/articles/Pages/HSCU1009.aspx]]></link>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Commercial Dispute Resolution Update]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[This update provides brief details of recent case law, legislation and other practice and procedural developments relevant to those within the commercial dispute resolution field.]]></description>
			        <link><![CDATA[http://www.bevanbrittan.com/articles/Pages/CDR_update_October09.aspx]]></link>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[The regulation the health and social care sector has never been as much in the public eye, for example the attention given to the failings at the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust.&nbsp; There is also a new regulator, the Care Quality Commission (“CQC”), for the first time charged with ensuring essential levels of safety and quality across the entire health and social care sectors.&nbsp; ]]></description>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Commercial Dispute Resolution Update]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[This update provides brief details of recent case law, legislation and other practice and procedural developments relevant to those within the commercial dispute resolution field.]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Health and Social Care Update - September 2009]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<p>
<div id="ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_BodyTextField__ControlWrapper_RichHtmlField" style="display:inline">This update prepared by Claire Benltey contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. </div>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Claims Online - Bevan Brittan submissions to the Jackson Civil Litigation Costs Review]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[Bevan Brittan submissions to the Jackson Civil Litigation Costs Review]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[Excessive questioning and delay by Trial Judge, Limitation discretion in Sex Abuse cases and Malicious Falsehood]]></description>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Claims Online - Human Rights decision in Rabone v Pennine Care NHS Trust [2009]]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<P>The House of Lords decision of Savage v South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust [2008] UKHL 74 on 10 December 2008 left ambiguity regarding the application of Article 2 (ECHR) in relation to non-detained patients. </P>]]></description>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Does Rabone reveal all?]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[Since the Savage v South Essex NHS Trust [2008] UKHL 74 judgment last year left ambiguity regarding the application of article 2 in relation to non-detained patients, the case to clarify the issue has been long awaited and came recently with the handing down of the judgment of Rabone v Pennine Care NHS Trust [2009] EWHC 1827 (QB).&nbsp; ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Claims Online - Access to Justice – is the price too high to be just?]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[The summer is upon us, the England cricket team have beaten Australia at Lords, and potential readers of the Lord Justice Jackson Review of Civil Litigation Costs may be forgiven for reaching for the Pimms rather than this 679 page tome. However, those who favour summer idling will miss out on an interesting and important analysis of the relationship between costs and access to justice in clinical negligence.]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Claims Online - Cases Update]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[A round-up of recent cases by Nicola Robinson and Jonathan Fuggle including Part 36, wasted costs and CFAs.]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Claims Online - Claims arising from the misdiagnosis of breast cancer]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[Breast cancer affects more than 1 in 10 women (and a very small number of men) and is one of the most common causes of medical negligence actions. Breast cancer claims arise mainly from a failure to diagnose and treat, but occasionally also from wrongful diagnosis (ie false positives). ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Health & Social Care Update]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Co-operation and Competition Panel – Dagenham Decision. Good News, But…….]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[The decision by the Co-operation and Competition Panel published 30 June 2009, on the face of it, is encouraging news for PCTs looking for merger options for their provider arms.&nbsp; ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Health and Social Care Update - July 2009]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Hospital Car Parking charges – a bitter pill to swallow?]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[Charging for parking at hospitals has become a controversial and politically sensitive issue. There has been a huge impact on the numbers of people wishing to park at hospital as a result of issues such as increased car ownership, the concentration of specialist medical services in fewer areas, the construction of new hospitals on the outskirts of towns with poor public transport access and the treatment of more people as outpatients. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Stranger than fact]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[A review of The Associate by John Grisham and the Preliminary Report on the Review of Civil Litigation Costs by Lord Justice Rupert Jackson]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Community Treatment Orders, conditions and deprivation of liberty]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[Long before Community Treatment Orders (CTO) came into force concerns were raised over possible infringements of human rights, in particular where conditions imposed as part of any CTO might be too restrictive. At the extreme end of the spectrum there will be cases where a patient under a CTO is or needs to be managed in circumstances amounting to a deprivation of liberty. The question is whether this is lawful and, if not, what can be done?]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Inquests – Should the verdict stretch as wide as the Inquiry?]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[This article will review the implications of three linked applications for judicial review all concerning inquests into deaths in custody.&nbsp; At each inquest it was alleged that acts/ omissions on the part of the Prison Service had caused or contributed to the death.&nbsp; The investigative obligation under Article 2 (the Right to Life) was engaged in all.]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Ten years on from "Zero Tolerance"]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[It is almost 10 years since the government first launched the zero tolerance campaign. Nevertheless at the Royal College of Nurses congress in May delegates heard that frontline healthcare professionals continue to be at great risk of violence or verbal abuse from members of the public. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Health and Social Care update]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<P>This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. </P>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Authority update]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in local government work, which have been published in the two weeks up to 29 May 2009. Items are set out by subject, with a link to where the full document can be found on the internet. <br>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Facebook: It’s my life…]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[&nbsp;As online social networking becomes the fastest addiction since the office worker discovered caffeine, Adam Dickinson seeks to raise awareness of the dangers Facebook may pose to companies, jobs and a person’s reputation.]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Case updates]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[An update of recent cases by Julie Charlton including Negative Declarations of liability, the cost of providing Proof of Life and Stress at Work.]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Interim Payments – An outbreak of common sense? Surely not…]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[Tim Hodgetts reports on an outbreak of common sense with huge savings for Defendants.]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Internet Defamation and the NHS Trust]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[Sticks and stones and defamation - do you know what is being said about your organisation on the internet?]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Commercial Dispute Resolution Update]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Bevan Brittan Commercial Dispute Resolution Update for April 2009]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[“Airline Style” Patient Safety Checklist to be Introduced in the UK]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[Patient Safety Alert - NPSA to enforce 'Airline Style' safety Checklists by 2010.]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Case updates]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[<SPAN>Nicola Pegg </SPAN>takes a look at recent case developments.<BR>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Who Pays?]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[Joanne Easterbrook revisits the issue of spiralling care costs following the Court of Appeal decision in Chantelle Peters -v- East Midlands SHA &amp; Others on 3 March 2009.]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Commercial Dispute Resolution Update]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Bevan Brittan Commercial Dispute Resolution Update for April 2009]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Health and social care update]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Case updates]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[The meaning of life (among other things) is considered in this months case update by Julie Charlton and Georgia Ford. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[What price for justice?]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[Anna Kaden reviews the new CPR rules on costs capping. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[“Yet we have gone on living, living and partly living.”*]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[Assisted suicide is one of the most complex and controversial ethical issues of our time. The recent case brought by MS sufferer Debbie Purdy who wants to ensure that her husband is not prosecuted for helping her travel abroad to end her life, the televised assisted suicide of Craig Ewert, and the death of the young rugby player Daniel James and subsequent decision by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Keir Starmer, not to prosecute Daniel James’ parents has inflamed the passionate and intense debate further. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Children’s Services – What to do?]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[One cannot fail to be appalled at the tragedy that is the death of Baby P. With ongoing scrutiny of those agencies involved, it would seem that, notwithstanding previous and equally tragic cases, systems to safeguard children do not yet protect all children even when many agencies are involved or provide intense input.]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Deprivation of liberty - what do you need to know?]]></title>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Sharing information – access to health information of Individuals who are deceased]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[The records of a deceased individual are covered by entirely separate legislation – the Access to Health Records Act 1990, but is often the subject of a number of queries which Bevan Brittan receives from a range of health organisations. <BR>]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Commercial Dispute Resolution Update]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Bevan Brittan Commercial Dispute Resolution Update for April 2009]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Health and social care update]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. ]]></description>
			        <link><![CDATA[http://www.bevanbrittan.com/articles/Pages/Healthandsocialcareupdate-February2009.aspx]]></link>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Asbestos disease claims continue to be hard fought]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[Adrian Neale reports on significant recent developments in the field of asbestos disease litigation. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[CFA uplifts for a “Dead Cert”]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[CFA uplifts, No Bill for Wrong Pill and Limitation Lottery revisited by Jonathan Fuggle. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[The ministerial statement in response to Mike Richards’ report on the vexed question of top up payments for drugs not available on the NHS has the potential to create almost as many problems for PCTs as it resolves. David Owens reports. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[Talking Turkeys, Manual Handling and Bias.]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[Jo Easterbrook and Julie Charlton on the House of Lords' judgment on Savage. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[This Update the last of the year contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[Jonathan Fuggle's round-up of recent cases including a case where the midwives mixed up the newborns of two mothers. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Complaints - What NHS Trusts need to know]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[Matthew Trinder and Claire Bentley provided an update on the Complaints Procedure: 'What NHS Trusts need to know' ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Erb's Palsy Alert]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[A successful defence in the High Court suggests that the tide may have turned against "presumed negligence" in Shoulder Dystocia cases. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[This Update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, which have been published in the last month. <BR>]]></description>
			        <link><![CDATA[http://www.bevanbrittan.com/articles/Pages/Healthandsocialcareupdate-November2008.aspx]]></link>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[Julie Charlton's round-up of recent cases.]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[Jonathan Fuggle explains the new service rules effective since 1 October 2008.]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[Guidance from Claire Bentley and Debbie Platts. ]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[Simon Lindsay on causation, material contributions and the limits of scientific proof.]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <description><![CDATA[Jonathan Fuggle's round-up of recent cases includes a disappointing decision on pre-action disclosure, amending a Claim Form to add new claims and Loss of Chance to become a Man Utd footballer.]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <title><![CDATA[Reporting stab wounds in A&E departments]]></title>
			        <description><![CDATA[Your A&amp;E staff at the sharp end - Claire Bentley sets out the legal duties to report report stab wounds to the police against a background of rising knife crime.]]></description>
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			        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			        <link><![CDATA[http://www.bevanbrittan.com/articles/Pages/Healthandsocialcareupdate-September2008.aspx]]></link>
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			        <pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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