Articles by ‘Mei-Ling Huang’

Insurance governance expert, Mactavish, has reported that market standard or ‘off the shelf’ cyber insurance policies do not always provide adequate cover for the cyber risks faced by most organisations.

While the workings of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) can seem like a mystery to many dental professionals, understanding how CQC works will help your service shine during its inspection.

In considering whether or not your organisation is ready for the year ahead, cyber security should be at the top of your list.

Oxford and Cambridge are accused of “bankrupt moral leadership” by senior academics for choosing to keep the Default Retirement Age (DRA) despite its abolition in 2011.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has begun formal enforcement action against care homes that have failed to pay the data protection fee (the Fee).

So-called ‘gagging clauses’ have always courted controversy but they recently acquired rather sinister overtones after it came to light that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had inserted them into some of its contracts with businesses and not-for-profit organisations involved in the roll-out of universal credit.

We asked you to let us know what issues were keeping you up at night and the primary concern at the top of most of your lists was cybersecurity and the impact that an attack may have on both your organisation’s finances and reputation.

CQC have focused on five factors that affect the sustainability of care:

We all use smartphone apps; in fact, many of us have come to rely on the apps on our phones to assist us in our daily lives – from online shopping, to internet banking, to watching live footage of what our pets are doing at home whilst we are at work.
But what do these apps do with the personal data they collect from us when we sign up, click download or enter our credit card details, and has the introduction of the GDPR made any difference?

In June and July, the First Tier Tribunal heard an appeal brought by Care Management Group Limited (CMG). At issue was CQC’s refusal to allow CMG to extend the registration of a care home for people with learning disabilities from 7 beds to 10. The Tribunal held that CQC’s refusal of the provider’s application was correct.

Results day is nerve-wracking for everyone involved – students, parents, guardians – even teachers! But it can be even more stressful if you did not receive the mark you were expecting and don’t understand why. To make matters worse, it is likely that your results will also be published by your school or college for the world (or, at least, readers of the local newspaper) to see.

As we are all well aware by now, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25 May 2018 and with it came a duty on all organisations to report certain types of personal data breaches to relevant supervisory authorities.