Latest blogs on procurement law

Joint committees between CCGs and NHS England for the exercise of CCGs' functions could be used to assist in joint decision making when there is a need to reconfigure services that cut across both NHS England and CCG commissioned services.

The audit finds a wide variation in the allocation of £79 billion in central funding to local commissioners which in 2014-15 terms is equivalent to £1,400 per person.

The Court of Appeal has given judgment in the case of Hainsworth v Ministry of Defence . While not an NHS specific case it provides helpful clarification regarding the limits of the law on reasonable adjustments.

Healthcare lawyer Jane Williams looks at Rose where the Administrative Court considered whether a CCG had acted unlawfully in failing to implement National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance even though it was under no statutory obligation to do so. 

The biggest reform of procurement law in a decade is underway, with the new EU directives on public procurement, utilities procurement and concession contracts expected to be implemented in the UK later this year.

The Mills & Reeve procurement team has recently teamed up with Built Intelligence to develop a brand new procurement e-learning tool which we are proud to launch and offer to our readers.

A current hot topic is the statutory duty of candour which requires providers of health or social care to voluntarily 'open up' about mistakes and failures.

NHS bodies face escalating demand for services increasing scrutiny of quality and flat line funding.

This week the final stage of the procurement process for the Lead Provider Framework for quality assessing providers of CSS was launched.