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CONTENTS: 1. Editorial – The White Paper – latest developments 2. Government to scrap the Audit Commission 3. NICE announces new quality standards 4. Equality Act 2010 5. GPC to push for optional commissioning DES 6. APMS contracts...
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CONTENTS: Click here to download Lockharts White Paper Bulletin 3 which is the second in our series. Lockharts has been appointed by Londonwide Local Medical Committees to develop materials to facilitate the development of the GP consortia, as...
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CONTENTS: Click here to download Lockharts White Paper Bulletin 2 which is the second in our series. Lockharts has been appointed by Londonwide Local Medical Committees to develop materials to facilitate the development of the GP consortia, as...
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CONTENTS: Equity and Excellence: Lockharts and the White Paper The White Paper published on 12 July 2010 (Equity & Excellence: Liberating the NHS) outlines plans for the biggest shake-up of the NHS since its inception - Department of Health...
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CONTENTS: 1. Editorial – The White Paper – Contracting Reforms 2. Health Bill Forces GPs to Federate 3. Fears Over ‘Fast-Track’ GP Fitness to Practise Hearings 4. Pay Freeze For GPs 5. National Health Service (Performers...
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CONTENTS: 1.Registration with the Care Quality Commission (‘CQC’) 2.Dental Charges Frozen 3.HTM 0105 – Health Technical Memorandum 01-05 4.HMRC Debut New ‘Super Podcast’ 5.The Bribery Act 2010 6.GDC Announces New Interim...
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CONTENTS: 1. Data Breaches Could Lead To £500,000 Fine 2. GPC’s Warning On ‘Fit Notes’ 3. GPs Under Increased Pressure From Government on Extended Hours 4. Health Minister Admits GPs Upset By Clawbacks 5. Small...
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CONTENTS: 1. BVA Produces Guide to Partnerships in Veterinary Practice 2. Calls for New Dangerous Dogs Legislation 3. Draft Animal Health Bill 4. VET Help 5. Access for Disabled Customers 6. Directors’ Duties and Liabilities –...
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CONTENTS: 1. Continuation of the Extended Hours Access Scheme Directed Enhanced Service (DES) 2. The Future of Commissioning 3. Scrapping Practice Boundaries 4. Revalidation 5. Seniority – Current and Future Problems 6. The Tax...
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CONTENTS: 1. Incorporation, Incorporation, Incorporation 2. Dental Access Figures Released 3. Investment to Increase Access 4. Government Scheme Hits Dental Nurses' Pockets 5. Calls for Dental Staff to Receive Child Protection Training 6. ...
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CONTENTS: 1. Need Premises Advice? Think Lockharts! 2. Spot checks on GPs from Care Quality Commission 3. GMC continues to demand right to check EU doctors' English 4. Overhaul of sick note system 'not realistic' 5. GPs under pressure as...
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CONTENTS: 1. NHS introduces website to help patients choose their GP 2. BMA calls for GP pay rise 3. Dispensing payment changes could leave practices out of pocket by up to £24,000 4. GMC revamps guidance on confidentiality 5. ISA...
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CONTENTS: 1. GP Consultations on the rise 2. GP catchment areas to be scrapped within a year 3. The Government’s World Class Commissioning Initiative 4. PCTs to tighten GP drug budget funding 5. GPs banned from charging patients for...
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CONTENTS: 1. Lockharts Tendering Master-class 2. New Complaints Procedure 3. Darzi Stands Down 4. NHS Dental Services in England – the Steele Review 5. BMA Launches Revalidation Guidance 6. Practice manager of the year award 7. ...
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CONTENTS: 1. Patients to be allowed to visit multiple GP practices 2. Short Term Room Licence 3. Licence to Practise Deadline 4. Making a Gift – IHT Implications 5. Tougher rules to prevent personal conflicts affecting revalidation ...
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CONTENTS: 1. Lockharts Partnership Deed Tick Box Test for Doctors and Dentists 2. BMA requesting revalidation answers 3. PBC Budgets: Time to get real? 4. “Any Willing Providers” and Procurement 5. NHS Pension Scheme...
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CONTENTS: 1. Employment Law Update 2. Primary Care Federations 3. Complaints Procedure Update Click here to download Lockharts Newsletter 21 , or alternatively write to us at csd@lockharts.co.uk . Disclaimer The content of this...
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CONTENTS: 1. UK must prove that retirement age is needed 2. New complaints regulations to come into force 3. End of tax year - IHT relief’s to consider 4. Extended hours could be stripping funding from smaller practices 5. PCTs sign...
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CONTENTS: 1. LMCs bulk buy to help GPs beat credit crunch 2. Patient choice to become a contractual requirement 3. Pilot Trusts: Use in relation to pension’s lump sum death in service benefit 4. Redundancy – Issues for Practices ...
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CONTENTS: 1. New PCTs to seek ‘better value’ from PMS Contracts 2. Local NHS funding plans announced 3. Generic Substitution 4. Photographing and Recording Patients 5. The Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) 6. Funding...
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CONTENTS: 1. New Funding Arrangements 2. Licence to Practise 3. Age Discrimination: "retirement dismissals" 4. Assura LLPs 5. Computerised Patients Notes 6. Is Your GMC Registration Up-to-Date? 7. Fraud Act 2006 8. ...
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On the morning of Wednesday 10 December 2008, the judgment of the Court of Appeal (The Master of the Rolls, Dyson LJ, Jackson LJ) was handed down in the case of Crouch v South Birmingham PCT . Lockharts were instructed by The British Dental...
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CONTENTS: 1. Chambers Directory 2009 2. Nurses Outnumbering GPs in Polyclinics 3. Criminal Records Bureau – Guide to Routine Checks 4. Whistleblowing 5. Dispensing Doctors – Consultation Document on Pharmacy in England 6. ...
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CONTENTS: 1. Unsuccessful Tenders 2. Employing Illegal Workers 3. Private Firms and Their Role in Commissioning 4. Express Lift 5. Freedom for "Freed-Up Rescources" 6. Trade Mark Rules 2008 7. Lease Assignment 8. National...
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CONTENTS: 1. Retiring or Acquiring 2. Will the GMC use online GP ratings? 3. Quickies 4. Chaperones 5. Medical Expert Witnesses - Simple Guidance 6. Company Secretaries 7. QOF 8. Global Sum and Correction Factors 9. Firm News ...
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CONTENTS: 1. Federation or Commission? 2. SDLT Appeal on Transfers of Partnership Property 3. Superannuation Leavers and Joiners 4. Apologies Could Avoid Litigation 5. PBC 6. Unfair Job Adverts 7. Firm News Click here to...
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We have recently been successful in appealing against a decision of HMRC that Stamp Duty Land Tax was payable by a client on a property transaction where the partners had purchased a retiring partner’s share. We argued that the transaction fell...
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CONTENTS: 1. Energy Performance Certificates 2. Success in the House of Lords for Doctors' Association 3. The Future of the PCT Estate 4. New Chemical Regulations 5. Healthcare Procurement during 2008 6. iwantgreatcare.org 7. ...
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The British Dental Association (“BDA”), represented by Lockharts, successfully intervened in support of Mr E Crouch’s application for judicial review proceedings against South Birmingham Primary Care Trust. The case was heard over 25 and...
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CONTENTS: 1. Lord Darzi's Polyclinics 2. Tendering 3. Contract variations in core hours 4. Health Service Body Status 5. Unpaid Superannuation Contributions claims against PCT 6. The New Extended Hours DES 7. Abolition of Patients...
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CONTENTS: 1. Corporate Manslaughter and Practice Based Commissioning 2. Compulsory retirement age held to be lawful 3. Maximising tax relief on surgery acquisitions 4. Increase in Employment Tribunal awards Click here to download Lockharts...
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CONTENTS: 1. Practice Based Commissioning Bulletin 2. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) 3. Change to standard of proof in fitness-to-practise hearings 4. LMCs forming Limited Companies 5. Employment Bill 2007 6. Unfair Dismissal 7. ...
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CONTENTS: 1. Inheritance Tax nil-rate band 2. Capital Gains Tax reform 3. Delay for maternity/paternity pay increases 4. NMW – first criminal prosecution 5. Changes to the examination procedure for UK trade mark...
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Pre-Budget Report - 9 October 2007 1. Who is likely to be affected? The proposals cover individuals, trustees and personal representatives recording a gain which is chargeable to Capital Gains Tax...
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This note is for the assistance of clients who may be concerned as to the extension of the Nil Rate Band, following the publication of the 2007 Pre-Budget Report on 9 October 2007. Who is most likely to be affected? Married couples,...
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CONTENTS: 1. Partnership Agreement Assessments for GPs Click here to download Lockharts Newsletter 7 , or alternatively write to us at csd@lockharts.co.uk . Disclaimer The content of this newsletter is only intended as information and...
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling announced in the pre-Budget report that the rules on capital gains tax (CGT) will change from 6 April 2008. The current system of taper relief allows investors to pay just 10% on investments held for two...
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There has been an increasing awareness among clients about the value of branding to their businesses. Branding is as valuable a tool to the medical, dental, veterinary and pharmaceutical business sectors as it is to the consumer market more broadly....
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CONTENTS: 1. The NHS Litigation Authority and Pitfalls 2. Director's Duties 3. Partnership Deeds 4. Employment Pitfalls 5. Local Dental Committees 6. Pharmacy Companies 7. Dispensing Doctors 8. Intellectual Property: Trade Marks 9. Dual...
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Parliament has approved the Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2007 which will give employees the right to a maximum of 28 days statutory annual leave, pro-rata for part time employees. The increase will cover employees whose current entitlement of 4...
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CONTENTS: 1. Statutory Holiday Entitlement - Update 2. PMS and Agreement Amendment 3. Tendering 4. Enduring Powers of Attorney – Deadline Approaching 5. PCT Claw-back 6. Tendering 7. Practice Websites Click here to download ...
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Why clients (or their close family) should take out an EPA before 1 October 2007. The existing Enduring Power Of Attorney document is concise, straightforward to explain and at 4 pages is relatively inexpensive to prepare. Further...
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CONTENTS: 1. Practice Based Commissioning Savings 2. Practice Based Commissioning Documentation 3. Dentists 4. GDC – Continuing Professional Development Audit 5. Freedom of Information 6. EMIS and Generic Drugs 7. 24 Hour Retirement ...
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The following article is for information only and contains illustrative examples; no particular investment recommendation should be inferred or implied from the information given. Child Trust Funds (CTF) have been available since April 2005 when parents of...
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The BDA, represented by Lockharts, has supported a successful use of judicial review proceedings against the NHS Litigation Authority. The case, which was heard on Wednesday 9th May, concerned a dentist who was awarded a zero valued general dental contract...
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Although the Department of Health’s November 2007 Guidance “Practice Based Commissioning: Practical Implementation” lacks a certain amount of clarity there is a clear intention that the DES Towards Practice Based Commissioning Scheme,...
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From 1 May 2007 partnerships have to register for VAT if they exceed or are likely to exceed the VAT registration threshold, which is currently £67,000, in respect of certain classes of services. Recent information from HMCE appears to...
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CONTENTS: 1. VAT Liability and Partnership Deeds 2. Practice Based Commissioning and Partnership Deeds 3. Directed Enhanced Services 4. Mergers and Acquisitions 5. Enduring Powers of Attorney and Lasting Powers of Attorney 6. Flexible Working ...
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Smoking Ban The ban on smoking in enclosed public places is due to come into force in Wales on 2 April 2007 and Northern Ireland on 30 April 2007. The ban will come into force in England on 1 July 2007. Wales From 6am on 2 April...
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Maternity and Adoption Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2006 From 1 April 2007, changes to Maternity Leave entitlements will come into force extending Additional Maternity Leave (“AML”) to all female staff. The legislation also...
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On the 6 April the Gender Equality Duty (“GED”) comes into force under the Equality Act 2006 . It has been described as the most important sex equality legislation for 30 years, and will impose a positive duty on public authorities to address...
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CONTENTS: 1. Equality Act 2006 - The Gender Equality Duty 2. Maternity and Adoption Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2006 3. Companies Act 2006 – New Company Disclosure Obligations 4. Companies Act 2006 – Electronic Communications 5. ...
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Trust, Assurance and Safety – The Regulation of Health Professionals In The 21st Century On the 21 February the Government published a White Paper, Trust, Assurance and Safety – The Regulation of Health Professionals In The 21st...
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CONTENTS: 1. Enduring Power of Attorney and Lasting Power of Attorney (“LPA”) (Mental Capacity Act 2005) Click here to download Lockharts Newsletter 1 , or alternatively write to us at csd@lockharts.co.uk . Disclaimer The...
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Introduction With the end of the present (2006-07) tax year on the horizon – 5 April 2007; clients are reminded, if they have not utilised the annual exemption from tax year 2005-06 prior to 5 April 2007, they will lose the...
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On 1 January 2007 new legislation came into force that placed additional obligations on companies and LLPs to disclose information about the company. Companies are required to state: · their name clearly on all order forms and on their...
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The General Medical Council v. Meadow (Attorney General intervening) [2006] EWCA Civ 1390 Two issues were identified by the Court of Appeal; firstly, whether statements given by an expert witness as evidence in legal proceedings were subject...
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Enduring Power of Attorney (“EPA”) Lasting Power of Attorney (“LPA”) (Mental Capacity Act 2005) Clients may be aware that the present regime for giving a (longer term) Power of Attorney to a third party was established...
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Enduring Power of Attorney Although we intend in the future to send clients regular informative updates drawing attention to developments in the law which may affect their practices, I felt that I should write to you now about a development which...
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Implementation of VAT on Medical Services From the 1 st May 2007, VAT Liability may be incurred for certain medical services. The exemption will continue for all services where the principal purpose is the protection, maintenance or restoration of...
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CONTENTS: Equity and Excellence: Lockharts and the White Paper The White Paper published on 12 July 2010 (Equity & Excellence: Liberating the NHS) outlines plans for the biggest shake-up of the NHS since its inception - Department of Health...
