Business Interruption Insurance – how to make a claim
Following our recent article on business interruption insurance, we have produced this step by step guide on the claims process. Notify your insurer The first step is to notify your insurer immediately that you have a claim. Check the wording of your policy as this may set out a procedure and time limit for notification. You will need to ensure you follow that procedure to the letter,...Read More
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Business Interruption Insurance – do you have a claim?
On 23rd March 2020 the Government announced that all restaurants, pubs, gyms and other leisure businesses should be shut as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also announced that anyone that can work remotely should. Naturally, many turned to their business interruption insurance policies to provide cover for the financial losses suffered as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. This...Read More
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Business Interruption Insurance – do you have a claim?
Following the Chief Dental Officer’s announcement on 25th March 2020 that practices should effectively stop all face to face contact with patients, dental practices across the UK shut their doors for the foreseeable future. Naturally, many turned to their business interruption insurance policies to provide cover for the financial losses suffered as a result of the coronavirus COVID-19...Read More
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NHS and redeployment of your workforce
On 25th March 2020 the CDO and NHS England sent a letter to all NHS dental practices, advising them that they would continue to be paid under their NHS contracts, subject to staff being redeployed. It gave four examples of where staff might be redeployed to, namely urgent dental care centres, supporting the NHS both generally and in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, voluntary or local...Read More
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EMPLOYMENT UPDATE: Will your contracts be compliant come 6th April 2020?
At present employers are required to provide employees with a written statement of particulars of employment before their employment starts and within at least 2 months of the start date. That statement must set out certain information, such as pay, hours, the grievance and disciplinary policies. This is not an exhaustive list. However, key changes will come into effect from 6th April 2020...Read More
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CQC and Enforcement Action
The CQC has announced that it is prepared to take enforcement action against those practices who disregarded NHS England’s call for all routine dental care to cease. The announcement was made after the CQC discovered some practices still undertaking routine care, including aerosol-generating procedures. Such actions would expose patients and staff to unnecessary risks of viral transmission...Read More
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