Articles by ‘Mei-Ling Huang’

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.

In what has been a very busy week for privacy law, MEPs have voted to suspend the EU-US Privacy Shield, Facebook faces a fine of £500,000 for data breaches in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and now Sir Cliff Richard has won his privacy case against the BBC over its coverage of a police raid on his home.

The EU-US Privacy Shield framework was designed to provide companies on both sides of the Atlantic with a mechanism to comply with data protection requirements when the personal data of EU citizens is transferred to the US.

Amazon’s Echo – the voice controlled smart speaker – was launched in a bid to conquer the big tech market. Accusations of digital spying soon followed as more and more voice activated tech was released.

Along with the introduction of the new KLOEs this November, changes are afoot for the PIR.

A lawyer with extensive experience of the health and social care sector has joined RWK Goodman as a partner. Mei-Ling Huang has joined our Health & Social Care team from Burroughs Day in Bristol,…

Since the introduction of the Fundamental Standards and Ratings System in April 2015, it is clear that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) is taking a firmer approach to inspections and regulation. Unsurprisingly we have seen a corresponding increase in the number of enquiries received from providers who wish to challenge the contents of their report. Here are my top tips on how to succeed with a challenge.

I thought I would provide a blog that would give an insight on a typical week as a trainee now that I am mid-way through my first seat.