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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has secured a conviction against a surgery manager after unlawfully accessing the medical records of approximately 1,940 patients registered with College Practice GP surgery in Maidstone.

As an early Christmas present the European Commission has announced the new procurement thresholds to take effect from 1st January 2014. 

Disappointed bidders in public procurement exercises have often resorted to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to try to obtain information which may assist them in bringing a claim.

Rotherham CCG bucked the trend to put all new contracts out to competitive tender when it decided earlier this month that it would not put out to tender seven community service contracts (CSCs)

Hard on the heels of the Danish case referred to in our last blog post comes the unfortunate tale of Mr Nadarajah, a sole legal practitioner who operated under the title All About Rights Law Practice.

This Assurance Framework sets out the framework for quarterly assurance meetings which will assess the performance of CCGs in the following six domains...

As the NHS (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations, 2013 bed in, they are at risk of creating an environment of cautions commissioning with commissioners placing too much emphasis on avoiding a challenge.