Articles by ‘Mei-Ling Huang’

The Care Association Alliance, a professional body that represents 38 regional Care Associations who between them represent thousands of care services across the UK, have today issued this statement in response to MPs, notably Shadow Heath Secretary Jonathan Ashworth MP, calling for care residents to be moved from their homes into hospital environments.

On 9 April 2020, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) published new Guidance for care homes and hospitals entitled: “Mental Capacity Act (2005) (MCA) and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic”.

The spread of COVID-19 is causing businesses of all shapes and sizes to consider their risk management arrangements and specifically, whether or not their insurance policies might cover some of the loss they will inevitably face.

This emergency legislation was pushed through in record time to allow the country to deal with this crisis quickly. Much of the Act paves the way for local authorities, CCGs, the NHS and HMRC to put emergency measures in place.

On 17 March, Health Secretary Matt Hancock unveiled details of emergency legislation to be presented as a bill to the House of Commons within the next week – the ‘Coronavirus Bill’.

2019 has been a tumultuous year for social care providers, culminating in a heated general election campaign. Care providers will be looking to government for clarity and security in 2020, says the dedicated Social Care team at law firm RWK Goodman.

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Earlier this year, there were reports that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) were deploying practices to further frustrate the review of draft inspection reports. It seems that the problem persists. Mei-Ling Huang, partner in our specialist Health & Social Care team, explains:

CQC have released their report on the state of care for 2018/19. Our Health & Social Care team bring you the summary and their comments on the key findings of the report including issues such as quality, funding, workforce, technology, innovation and capacity.

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Boris Johnson has taken the keys to Number 10 as the country’s new Prime Minister. But what will his premiership mean for adult social care?

“Deepfakes” are essentially computer generated ‘faceswaps’ created using Artificial Intelligence. The term originated around the end of 2017 when an online community began sharing deepfakes they had created amongst themselves. They started with fairly harmless content such as swapping Nicolas Cage’s face on to different actors in a variety of movies, but things took a turn for the worse when people started swapping celebrities’ faces on to the bodies of those involved in pornographic videos.