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The much awaited report by Robert Francis QC about patient safety concerns at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust is due to be published early next month and it is expected to be critical of the culture of health service with recommendations on improving regulation, patient safety and quality of care.

A total of 211 CCGs will be responsible for £65bn of the £95bn NHS commissioning budget from 1 April 2013. The remaining 110 CCGs are set for authorisation over the next two months with the outcomes of waves three and four expected in February and March 2013.

This Act will apply to all procurements run under The Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (the 'Regulations') which are still in the pre-procurement planning stage (i.e. an advertisement has not yet been issued/expressions of interest have not yet been sought) as at 31 January 2013.

NHS PS has stated that where accommodation is leased it will seek to pass down lease obligations to CCGs. Where it will have freehold property, it will make accommodation available on a 'cost recovery' basis. What this means in terms of hard cash is presently unclear...

One of the matters raised which might prevent private providers from operating on an equal footing with others include corporation tax and VAT.

The Report found that there was a lack of transparency about how the required level for the SLF would be...

There has been a lot more interest around judicial review as a possible remedy in procurement cases in recent times and it is worth noting that in its challenge to the decision of the Secretary of State for Transport over the West Coast main line...

Should CCG decision-making functions be delegated? If so, to whom and how? These are the options...