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This week we've been looking at the light touch regime which is destined to completely replace the current Part B Services regime for some service contracts that are valued at over 750 000 Euros.

Luckily the title of this blog does not refer to a holiday nightmare but to that rare thing from the English courts' a decision NOT to lift the automatic suspension where a procurement decision has been challenged.

The recent case of Italian Interior Ministry v Fastweb SpA (Case C-19/13) highlights the limited protection that the VEAT notice route can offer to contracting authorities wishing to make direct awards without following an OJEU process.

The new partnership aims to share best practice and case studies to help facilitate integrated thinking and integrated care and ultimately streamline health and care pathways for patients.

This was the question considered in the case of Howorth v North Lancashire Teaching Primary Care Trust. Mrs Howorth was employed by the North Lancashire Primary Care NHS Trust as a health visitor. In December 2006 Mrs Howorth was diagnosed with depression was prescribed anti-depressant medication and went on sick leave.

Clinical commissioners are to help develop the care.data programme into the 'pathfinder stage'. The programme will be rolled out in 265 GP surgeries in the CCG areas of Leeds North, West and South, Somerset, West Hampshire and Blackburn with Darwen.