Latest blogs on procurement law

The data packs provide CCGs and area teams with practical where to look support in gathering data to help transform the way care is delivered for their patients and populations.

The three new EU Directives on public procurement utilities procurement and concession contracts were published in the Official Journal of the European Union today and will come into force on 17 April 2014.

Here in Cambridge there are many memorials to Thomas Hobson the city innkeeper who used to tell customers that they could have any horse as long as it was the one closest to the stable door an option which became known as Hobson's choice.

The Department of Health has published a draft Legislative Reform Order (LRO) to address an issue which many of you will have faced since April 2013.

This decision marks a fundamental shift in determining whether there is a deprivation of liberty. There are likely to be thousands of people who were not considered to be deprived of their liberty before Wednesday who will be today in light of this judgement.

As part of the Government's drive to reduce red tape, the Department of Health (DH) is proposing to use a legislative reform order to amend the NHS Act 2006.

The House of Lords Select Committee on the Mental Capacity Act 2005 was published this morning. This is the Act that governs how to assess if a patient has capacity to take decisions, for example whether to consent to medical treatment, or whether to agree to a proposed home care package. It also sets out how healthcare bodies and professionals should take decisions for patients where they lack such capacity.

This month's recent Clinical Commissioning Group Bulletin dated 6 March 2014 promotes the publication of NHS Standard Contract supporting documents which can all be accessed on the NHS Standard Contract webpage.

A report by NHS Clinical Commissioners (NHS CC) calls for a more joined up approach to primary care commissioning.