Commercial health By Anne Crofts This collection looks at the latest news and comment on commercial contracting healthcare law. With the health and social care sector under pressure to generate efficiencies, individual organisations must look at how they commission and deliver…
ESG in Health and Social Care By Anna Hart For the latest news and comment on ESG in Health and Social Care
Health Adviser By Nigel Montgomery Health Adviser is DACB's flagship publication for the health sector, providing insight, foresight and thought-provoking features and articles that provide practical solutions for the issues of the day, for health and social care professionals. In…
Health and social care integration By Hamza Drabu For all the latest legal and regulatory news and comment in health and social care integration
Health corporate regulatory For all the latest news and comment in corporate regulatory healthcare law
Health real estate For all the latest legal and regulatory news and comment in healthcare estates and facilities management
World Patient Safety Day 2023 By Sean Doherty The WHO World Patient Safety Day 2023 took place on 17 September 2023. The theme this year is Engaging Patients for Patient Safety. The WHO recognises patient safety as a global health priority and sees patient and family engagement as a key…
Health Adviser - Issue 23: Tackling Inequalities By Nigel Montgomery Our health team has today launched the latest edition of Health Adviser – DACB’s flagship publication for the health sector, focused on the theme of ‘tackling inequalities in health and social care’. Much of the recent media attention on health…
Proposed Protect Duty: how might it impact the health and social care sector? This month marks the first anniversary of the Liverpool Women's Hospital attack, which killed the suspected bomber and injured the driver of the taxi in which he was travelling. The Queen’s Speech 2022 outlined a proposed Protect Duty Bill with the…
Mini Budget - Tax announcements By John Dunlop The major news outlets will shortly be all over the headlines of the mini / emergency Budget which was first thing this morning. Therefore in the interest of speed a bullet point summary of the tax headlines are as follows:
The Procurement Bill - some key commercial and contract management implications to be considered By Katherine Calder On 11 May 2022 the Government introduced the Procurement Bill (the “Bill”) into the House of Lords. The Bill follows on from December 2020’s Green Paper on Transforming Public Procurement and the response to the consultation on the Green Paper,…
The press and employment tribunal proceedings: Client names and commercially sensitive information in tribunal documents may have to be open to scrutiny so that the principle of open justice is served By Ceri Fuller The EAT has held that an employment tribunal did not properly consider the principle of open justice in ordering the anonymization of client names and redaction of commercially sensitive information.
CMA investigates highly anticipated hospital acquisition By Louise Watson-Jones The UK’s competition watchdog, the Competition and Markets Authority (‘ CMA ’), is currently investigating the anticipated acquisition by Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (‘ AUHFT ’) of The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University…
Canada Update - Medical Marijuana to be permitted in UK By Jonathan Deverill Following the recent high-profile case of Billy Caldwell, the British Home Secretary announced recently that medical cannabis is to be made available to UK patients on prescription.
Outsourcing in the NHS in the wake of Carillion By Anne Crofts Taking a look at the lessons that can be learned by the NHS in the wake of Carillion's collapse.
GDPR: What does it mean for commissioners? By Hamza Drabu The date of 25 May 2018 looms large on the horizon for all those who process personal data, when the brave new world under the General Data Protection Regulation begins. Understandably, the new regime is something which particularly concerns…
