National Health Service in UK Law
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Pfizer Corporation v Ministry of Health
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The duty to provide hospital and specialist services is imposed upon the Minister. Any act done by an officer or servant of a Regional Hospital Board for thepurpose of providing hospital or specialist services is accordingly done on behalf of the Minister in performance of the statutory duty which is imposed upon him.
Such a provision would have been unnecessary unless a Regional Hospital Board, in exercising its functions under the Act, was acting on behalf of the Crown.
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Exel Europe Ltd v University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
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In my judgement, one important area of the public interest is the efficient and economic running of the National Health Service. In these times of economic difficulties and constraints, there is massive pressure on the different arms and parts of the NHS to make savings. One main area is and must be the procurement of medical goods, drugs, equipment and services. It is not for the Court however to determine how the different parts of the NHS must achieve efficient and cost saving procurement.
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Mitchell and Edon v Ross
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Dr. Ross, having been assessed to income tax under Schedule E in respect of the profits and gains arising from his part-time appointment and under Schedule D in respect of the profits and gains arising from his private practice, appealed against the assessments to the Special Commissioners on two grounds.
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Doogan v Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board
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The mischief, also acknowledged by Lord Diplock, was the unsatisfactory and uncertain state of the previous law, which led to many women seeking the services of "back-street" abortionists, which were often unsafe and, whether safe or unsafe, were offered by people who were at constant risk of prosecution and, as Lord Diplock put it, "figured so commonly in the calendars of assizes in the days when I was trying crime" (p 825F).
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R (A) v Secretary of State for Health
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Asylum seekers are clearly resident here but is the manner in which they have acquired and enjoy that residence ordinary or extraordinary? They should never have come here in the first place and after their claims have finally been dismissed they are only here until arrangements can be made to secure their return, even if, in some cases, like the unfortunate YA, that return may be a long way off.
Whereas exceptions affording free medical treatment are made under regulation 4(1)(c) of the Charges to Overseas Visitors Regulations for those accepted as refugees and those whose claims for asylum have not yet been finally determined, no exception is made for failed asylum seekers. The public policy considerations which inform Lord Scarman's exception militate against their being allowed to claim the benefits of a free national health service.
- The National Health Service
- Policy Making in the National Health Service
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In what sense a National Health Service?
Under the recent Conservative and current Labour Governments it appears that the NHS is moving in two different directions at once. Some commentators claimed that the national character of the heal...
- Contracts in the National Health Service Internal Market
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Genetic Screening Hits National Health Service
The National Health Services in the United Kingdom proposes to implement genetic screening, based on Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD), originally developed in the late 1980s to identify gen...
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UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) Receives Power to Audit National Health Service
The ICO has welcomed a change in legislation which came into effect on 1 February 2015 enabling it to audit National Health Service (NHS) bodies to check for compliance with the UK Data Protection ...
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U.K. National Health Service Launches Online Isolation Notes to Help Employees Provide Proof of Coronavirus Work Absences
On March 20, 2020, the U.K. National Health Service (NHS) launched online isolation notes to enable employees to provide evidence to their employers that they have been medically advised to self-is...
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Summary of the CPS Paper on the Integration of Technology in the UK’s National Health Service
On 1 May, 2018 the Centre for Policy Studies (the “CPS”) published its latest paper on the UK’s National Health Service (the “NHS”) entitled “Powerful Patients, Paperless Systems: How New Technolog...