Elective Services meaning

In this issue: Autumn Budget 2024—key local government announcements Public procurement Governance Social housing Education Children’s social care Social care Healthcare Planning Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content New Q&A Autumn Budget 2024—key local government announcements On 30 October 2024, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP, unveiled a range of measures significant to local government practitioners, spanning public procurement, governance, healthcare, social housing, education, children’s social care, social care, planning and local government finance. The government emphasised that ‘local government is essential to the running of the country’ and to delivering vital services. Commentary on the announcements and their implications for practitioners has been provided by Andrea Squires of Winckworth Sherwood and Amardip Healy of Blake Morgan LLP. See: LNB News 30/10/2024 59. Public procurement Limitation periods in public procurement challenges (Oracle Security v Barts NHS Trust) In Oracle Security Services...

In this issue: Social care Social housing Education Planning Governance Healthcare Children’s social care Licensing Local government finance Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content New Q&As Social care Court of Protection authorises high-risk surgery and post-operative mechanical ventilation in intensive care for young adult lacking capacity (RS, Re (Best Interests: Surgery and Intensive Care)) In GH v RS (by his litigation friend, the Official Solicitor) and others, the Court of Protection sanctioned high-risk spinal surgery with planned prolonged elective ventilation for an 18-year-old who lacked capacity, finding the treatment to be in his best interests under the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Applying Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v James, Mr Justice Poole balanced serious intra- and post-operative hazards against meaningful gains in mobility, comfort, and life expectancy. The ruling emphasises the court’s responsibility to resolve finely poised medical treatment choices on an objective basis, providing reassurance to...

PwC, in its feedback to a consultation run by the Irish Department of Finance, said that in the absence of an exemption regime for foreign dividends and income, Ireland has stood out as an outlier against other European nations. Alongside backing the mooted exemptions, PwC noted that Ireland could further refine its tax code by altering interest deduction rules and possibly revisiting the 25% tax rate on nontrading income. Deloitte said in its response to the consultation...

CASE HUB ARCHIVED This archived case hub records the position as at the decision date of 1 August 2017; it is no longer being maintained. For further details, see the timeline, commentary and related cases. Case facts Outline: UK merger review into the proposed combination between Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust. Latest developments On 1 August 2017, the CMA granted full, unconditional clearance for the transaction. The CMA also determined that, although the merger could lessen competition in the provision of NHS elective services and NHS specialised services, the overall reduction in competition would ultimately be outweighed by significant benefits for patient care...

CASE HUB ARCHIVED This archived case hub records the position as at the decision date of 16 September 2015 and is no longer updated. See the timeline, commentary and related cases for further details. Case facts Outline UK merger review concerning the proposed combination of Ashford St Peter's NHS Foundation Trust with Royal Surrey County NHS Foundation Trust. The CMA cleared the merger after a phase 2 inquiry on 16/09/2015. Latest developments On 16 September 2015, the CMA gave unconditional clearance to the transaction, confirming its provisional conclusions. Parties Ashford and St Peter's NHS Foundation Trust (Ashford and St Peter's) and Royal Surrey County NHS Foundation Trust (Royal Surrey). Ashford and St Peter's run two hospitals, in Ashford and Chertsey, with a total of 570 beds, providing general hospital services to more than 380,000 people in Surrey. Royal Surrey operates one hospital in Guildford, with 520 beds, offering general hospital services to over 320,000 people. Market(s) Provision of NHS...

Background This Practice Note outlines, at a high level, the definition of a client in chapter 3 of the Financial Conduct Authority’s Conduct of Business sourcebook (COBS), and how such clients are classified as retail clients, professional clients or eligible counterparties for regulatory purposes. The COBS 3 provisions stem from the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Directive 2004/39/EC) (MiFID). MiFID was superseded by the recast MiFID (Directive 2014/65/EU) (MiFID II) together with the EU Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (Regulation (EU) 600/2014, OJ L 173, 12.6.2014) (EU MiFIR) (collectively, the EU MiFID II framework). As amended, most of the EU MiFID II framework has been in force since 3 January 2018, and EU Member States had until 3 July 2017 to implement MiFID II into their national law. The MiFID II Directive introduced changes to the client categorisation rules that existed under MiFID. The FCA consulted on its approach to implementing revisions to the former client categorisation regime brought in by MiFID II in consultation paper CP16/29: Markets in...