Latest blogs on procurement law

Healthcare lawyer Jane Williams looks at Rose where the Administrative Court considered whether a CCG had acted unlawfully in failing to implement National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance even though it was under no statutory obligation to do so. 

The Mills & Reeve procurement team has recently teamed up with Built Intelligence to develop a brand new procurement e-learning tool which we are proud to launch and offer to our readers.

The biggest reform of procurement law in a decade is underway, with the new EU directives on public procurement, utilities procurement and concession contracts expected to be implemented in the UK later this year.

A current hot topic is the statutory duty of candour which requires providers of health or social care to voluntarily 'open up' about mistakes and failures.

NHS bodies face escalating demand for services increasing scrutiny of quality and flat line funding.

This week the final stage of the procurement process for the Lead Provider Framework for quality assessing providers of CSS was launched.