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Navigating the Provider Selection Regime (Wales) Regulations 2025

Nicola Cullen explores the implementation and implications of the Provider Selection Regime (Wales) Regulations 2025, offering insights into its scope, processes, and practical considerations for contracting authorities.
August 18, 2025
Navigating the Provider Selection Regime (Wales) Regulations 2025

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Families refusing access to support

Is home a suitable option for residence and care for a vulnerable adult if their family refuses access to support? Sophie Holmes analyses a recent ruling.
Families refusing access to support

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Jul 11, 2025

PFI – a new era?

Melanie Pears explores the recent announcement by NHS England about the possibility of a private finance model for capital developments, alongside the Treasury's calls for it to be only used in very limited circumstances.
Jul 03, 2025

PFI - A New Era?

Melanie Pears explores the recent announcement by NHS England about the possibility of a private finance model for capital developments, alongside the Treasury's calls for it to be only used in very limited circumstances.
Jun 19, 2025

The final say

The Court of Protection has provided an important reminder that it is the judge who has the final say as to best interests, writes Alex Ruck Keene KC (Hon).

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May 02, 2025

Abbasi and Haastrup: to name or not to name

Last month saw the handing down of the long-awaited judgment of the Supreme Court in joined cases on the identification of clinicians in end-of-life cases. The ruling has a potential wide-ranging impact across the health and care sectors, writes Hannah Taylor.
Apr 25, 2025

Transfers from hospital to social care

What are the key laws that need to be upheld when transferring people from NHS hospital to local authority social care? Elizabeth Ridley explains.
Mar 19, 2025

Issuing proceedings in best interests cases

Katie Viggers, Mark Barnett and Hannah Khan set out four key takeaways for Integrated Care Boards from a recent case where a senior judge stressed the “crucial significance” of issuing proceedings promptly in a best interests case.
Feb 20, 2025

Homelessness and health

Julia Jones and Julie Bennett look at government guidance which suggests that the discharging from hospital of people at risk of or experiencing homelessness is a window of opportunity to address an individual’s complex needs.
Feb 19, 2025

Capacity, insight and professional cultures

Alex Ruck Keene KC (Hon) looks at an important new decision from the Court of Protection where the judge identified an evidential divide on capacity between social workers and clinicians.
Dec 13, 2024

Providing support for children with complex needs

Alex Ruck Keene KC (Hon) examines a recent High Court case concerning the Mental Health Act, ‘detainability,’ and judicial scrutiny (and the real underlying problems of children with complex needs).
Nov 20, 2024

Fluctuating capacity, the “longitudinal approach” and practical dilemmas

David Lock KC asks whether a “longitudinal approach” to when decisions can lawfully be made by patients with fluctuating capacity is consistent with the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (“the MCA”) and, if it is not, whether there is a better framework that could be used to enable decisions to be taken to protect this vulnerable class of persons using the inherent jurisdiction.

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