Good clinical practice for clinical trials

How to show MHRA you're meeting good clinical practice (GCP) standards and what to expect from an inspection.  Good clinical practice (GCP) is a set of internationally-recognised ethical and scientific quality requirements that must be followed when designing, conducting, recording and reporting clinical trials that involve people.

Doctors threaten legal action against NHS over IR35 tax rules

Unions representing locum doctors have threatened to seek a judicial review against NHS Improvement claiming the NHS is continuing to wrongly apply new tax rules.

The IR35 tax rules came into force for NHS trusts in April and require trusts to pay the tax and National Insurance for temporary staff who supply their services through a personal service company.  In some cases, the extra tax can reduce their income by half.


NHS Improvement has said it is up to trusts to ensure they are compliant with the rules.
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Are services well-led? Continuous improvement

Sets out how providers should carry out developmental reviews of their leadership and governance using the well-led framework.

• Developmental reviews of leadership and governance using the well-led framework: guidance for NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts
• Well-led framework supplementary guide