Articles by ‘Hazel Phillips’

Our Health & Social Care team is delighted to invite you to an exclusive evening with Alex Ruck Keene, barrister and a pre-eminent authority on issues around mental capacity law and policy.

Our Health & Social Care team is delighted to invite you to an exclusive evening with Alex Ruck Keene, barrister and a pre-eminent authority on issues around mental capacity law and policy.

When a company collapses, there is usually a queue of creditors hoping to get back at least some of the money owed to them. With the new rules set to change the order in which creditors are to be paid in insolvency scenarios, individuals and companies relying on insolvency proceedings to recover debts may find themselves worse off.

A South Wales-based care provider which specialises in supporting adults with autism and complex learning disabilities, has new owners. Values in Care, which was set up by managing director Geraldine Butler in 2003 to…

The sale of Ashdown House care home based in Daventry, Northamptonshire, to Knighton Care Services Ltd was arranged by DC Care, Chandler & Co and RWK Goodman, who are all members of the Buyacarehome…

Did you take part in CQC’s previous consultations regarding their factual accuracy guidance? Have CQC solved the problems you identified with the existing process for challenging draft inspection reports? Read on to hear our thoughts and find out how to share your views.

The CMA have contacted Care UK and stated that they must refund residents who were charged an upfront reported “admin” fee to avoid facing legal action.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) final guidance on care contracts and consumer law obligations has been published. The guidance will, says law firm RWK Goodman, have wide-reaching implications for care homes and care…

The Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) published a report on the care home market in November 2017. Its report highlighted concerns about service user contracts breaching consumer law and recommended wholesale changes to admissions processes, complaints handling and service user contracts.

Hazel Phillips in our Health & Social Care team provides an update on CMA guidance on how care providers should comply with consumer legislation in respect of service user contracts.

This month (May 2018), the Health & Social Care team at RWK Goodman has helped two pharmacies – one in Bristol and one in Leicester – change hands. Hazel Phillips, partner and head of…

A Somerset-based company which provides residential care for adults with physical, learning and mental health disabilities, has sold its care home and homecare businesses for an undisclosed sum with help from the Health &…