2/7/2025 3:38:09 PM Updates to the NHS Standard Contract 2025/26 By Emma Watt The NHS Standard Contract is the contractual basis on which Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) contract for all healthcare services other than...
12/12/2024 3:45:43 PM New data laws coming in 2025 By Emma Watt The Data Use and Access Bill (the Bill) contains the Government's proposals to update the UK’s data protection legislation. The Bill...
11/12/2024 10:53:05 AM New criminal offence -'failure to prevent fraud' By Emma Watt The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (the Act) created the new corporate criminal offence of ‘failure to prevent fraud’...
8/19/2024 8:16:11 AM ICO issues £6m fine for software provider following 2022 ransomware attack By Emma Watt The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has provisionally imposed a £6m fine on Advanced Computer Software Group Ltd, an NHS software...
7/17/2024 11:51:16 AM Corporate sustainability and supply chain due diligence By Emma Watt The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive ((EU) 2024/1760) (the Directive) comes into force on 25 July 2024 and introduces new...
10/2/2023 9:45:42 AM Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018: Delivering services to the health sector By Emma Watt The Department of Health and Social Care has published an updated guide for designated operators of essential services for healthcare in...
2/28/2023 11:11:11 AM Game, sett and match - FOIA and EIRs By Emma Watt On 4 August, a complainant had written to Natural England and requested the following: 'Please disclose whether access has been permitted...
12/9/2020 3:15:55 PM Counting the cost of Covid-19 By Emma Watt Many organisations have been operating a ‘buy now, budget later’ approach to Covid-19, which prioritises the safety of customers and...