GPs
12/03/19
Before practices can form long lasting, effective working relationships with other practices and healthcare professionals, they need to make sure that their own “houses are in order."
GPs
06/03/19
The new Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service (DES) was announced in the recently-published Five Year GP Contract Framework.
GPs
Health and social care
20/02/19
Capsticks' examines the seven core recommendations from the GP Partnership Review. This edition looks as Recommendation 5, which outlines how Primary Care Networks should be established and operate.
GPs
Health and social care
18/02/19
Neha Shah featured on 'The General Practice Podcast,' where she discussed some of the legal, financial and governance issues facing general practice as it begins to establish Primary Care Networks.
GPs
Health and social care
05/02/19
The NHS Resolution annual customer survey is now live! Provide your feedback on their performance over the past year and let them know where they are doing well, or areas where there may be room for improvement.
GPs
04/02/19
The independent chair of the GP partnership review has completed inquiry into whether the partnership model is suitable for the future of general practice. We review the the main difficulties facing practices, as highlighted in this report.
GPs
29/11/18
Marston Holdings Ltd v Ministry of Justice (HM Courts & Tribunal Service) [2018] EWHC 3168 (TCC)
GPs
25/10/18
The spotlight is firmly on GP Partnerships as a model to take general practice forward. General practice is being pushed to work at scale, have multi-disciplinary teams, collaborate and generally just be “bigger and better”.
GPs
24/10/18
In Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC v Various Claimants, Morrisons appealed a High Court judgment that it should be vicariously liable for a data breach committed by an employee.
Care Homes
GPs
Housing
10/10/18
See our latest quarterly employment law updates which includes recent cases and legal developments.
GPs
10/10/18
Puja Solanki addresses some of the most common questions we receive about Declarations of Trust
GPs
02/10/18
Neha Shah addresses some of the most FAQs our GP team receive on practice mergers.
GPs
13/08/18
To welcome Puja to the firm we asked her to address some of the most common questions we receive on this topic from GPs and Practice Managers.
GPs
19/07/18
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has considered the difficult issue of voluntary overtime and the calculation of holiday pay.
GPs
20/06/18
An insight into the the Rock Advertising Limited v MWB Business Exchange Centres Limited judgment.
GPs
15/06/18
An insight into the highly publicised case on worker status, Pimlico Plumbers v Smith.
GPs
11/06/18
Due to the Data Protection Act 2018 and GDPR, there are consequential changes to s. 40 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
GPs
18/05/18
An insight into the question of whether a man taking shared parental leave is entitled to the same rate of pay as a female employee taking maternity leave.
GPs
22/03/18
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will have a significant impact on how organisations deal with the personal data of their workforce.
GPs
09/02/18
The Government published “the Good Work Plan”, its response to “Good Work”, the review into modern working practices which was led by Matthew Taylor in late 2017.
GPs
18/12/17
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has provided useful guidance on the scope of whistle blowing legislation
GPs
01/12/17
The ECJ handed down its judgment this week in King v Sash Windows Workshop Ltd
GPs
20/11/17
GP practices to have clear and up to date agreements in place
GPs
17/11/17
One of the potentially ‘fair reasons’ for dismissal under the Employment Rights Act 1996
GPs
15/11/17
Whether you are considering a merger now, or in the future, we have guidance to help you plan and succeed.
GPs
Health and social care
Independent healthcare
09/11/17
The Five Year Forward View makes it clear that the integration of primary and secondary care systems
GPs
23/10/17
The government announced the first details of the employment tribunal fees refund scheme
GPs
19/10/17
Criminal Finances Act 2017, which came into force on 30 September
GPs
18/10/17
Greater Manchester Police has been fined £150,000 after 3 DVDs containing footage of interviews with victims of serious violent crime failed to reach their intended recipient, the National Crime Agency.
GPs
17/10/17
The Regulations require nearly all public sector employers to publish information on how much time is spent by their trade union officials on paid “trade union facility time” over the course of the relevant 12-month period.
GPs
13/09/17
GP practices - like many other businesses and healthcare providers
GPs
02/08/17
The EAT ruled that two NEDs of the petroleum company were personally liable for losses flowing from the dismissal of the CEO after he was dismissed for making protected disclosures.
GPs
26/07/17
The Employment tribunal fees system, which was introduced under the fees Order
GPs
04/05/17
The EAT consider whether employees who sleep-in are engaged in ‘time work’ for the full duration of the sleep-in shift or whether they are working only when they are awake and carrying out specific duties.
GPs
11/04/17
Under the Regulations, relevant public sector employers will have to publish on their website certain information relating to trade union officials and facility time.
GPs
29/03/17
With today’s triggering of Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty
GPs
27/03/17
Two tweets posted by columnist Katie Hopkins have been found by the high Court
GPs
08/03/17
HMRC has now published its much-anticipated electronic tool for determining whether off-payroll engagements are “in scope” for the new IR35 rules that will apply from 6th April 2017.
GPs
01/03/17
The main provisions of the trade union act 2016 (the Act) come into effect today, 1 March 2017.
GPs
31/01/17
An insight into draft legislation within the finance bill 2017.
GPs
25/01/17
Capsticks’ Sam Hopkins answers your frequently asked questions on GP leases.
GPs
01/12/16
An insight into an announcement from the Autumn statement on ''off-payroll'' workers in the NHS.
GPs
22/11/16
A worker can bring a claim for an employer’s failure to provide rest breaks.
Care Homes
GPs
Health and social care
Independent healthcare
09/09/16
The number of sale and leaseback transactions involving primary care premises has increased over recent years and is currently at an exponential rate of growth.
GPs
27/07/16
In the case of Bougnaoui v Micropole SA the Advocate General of the CJEU advised that the dismissal of a Muslim employee for refusing not to wear her hijab when visiting clients was direct discrimination on grounds of religious belief.
GPs
20/07/16
Partners in general practice tend to have close working relationships but the pressures of general practice
GPs
14/04/16
Draft Guidance from NHS England, which seeks to make it easier for primary care staff to raise concerns, is now open for consultation.
GPs
01/01/16
Preventing Muslim employee from wearing hijab was unlawful discrimination.