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The employment tribunal (ET) found that the dismissal was unfair because the Trust had not discharged the burden of showing a potentially fair reason for dismissal the Trust had not interviewed the service user in accordance with its disciplinary procedure and Polkey did not apply.

NHS England, through its area teams, remains responsible for ensuring that patients who choose to register out of area can continue to access urgent care during core hours if they cannot reasonably be expected to attend their registered practice.

In this week of our 'Countdown to Law-nch' series, we're looking at the government's attempts to use the draft Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (the Draft Regulations) to attain smallness within bigness; or to put it another way, the employment of policy and legislation as a vehicle for the encouragement of smaller players in the procurement markets.

Monitor has recently published the results of its investigation into how other comparable health systems work. Monitor found three specific service models in use abroad that might be able to offer benefits if used more widely by the NHS.

At this time of year, a key procurement question is: how is the transport of goods by sleigh properly classified for the purposes of the procurement Regulations?

Regulation 5 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 (the Regulations) which creates a fit and proper person requirement for directors of NHS bodies (FPPR) came into force on 27 November 2014.

An article on a case in Canada where the award of a federal government contract was decided on a coin toss. Not just one coin toss but a best of three.

So what has changed in the final version? Here is a short summary of the more material points...

Many CCG's SLAs with CSUs will shortly be coming to an end and NHS England has already signalled that these should not be extended beyond April 2016.