Clinical negligence By Nigel Montgomery For all the latest news and comment in clinical negligence healthcare law
Clinical regulatory By Corinne Slingo For all the latest news and comment in clinical regulatory healthcare law
Health Adviser By Nigel Montgomery This collection looks at the latest strategic, commercial, regulatory and negligence legal and advisory news and comment in health and social care. Health Adviser is an industry publication, produced by DAC Beachcroft, providing insight, foresight…
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
Junior Doctors By Rachel Roberts-Jenkins Having worked for the NHS since its inception in 1948, and as an original panel firm for NHS Resolution, DAC Beachcroft has developed a training video and toolkit for junior doctors, which can be freely accessed here by trusts and health and social…
Patient Safety is everyone’s responsibility: The New Patient Safety Strategy By Sean Doherty On 1 April 2019, NHS Improvement and NHS England united as one. The NHS Patient Strategy was published shortly after, in July 2019, and marks a positive sea change in the evolving framework of patient safety. Continued improvements in patient…
Calling all hip and knee surgeons - New Professional Guidance for arthroplasty documentation to evidence safe clinical practice By Sean Doherty The Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme is designed to improve healthcare practice, techniques and processes for the benefit of patients and to reduce litigation costs. As part of ongoing work with NHS Resolution, new guidance has…
Clinical Risk Headlines - July 2019 By Heather Durston-Hillyer Welcome to your first edition of Headlines - bringing you the latest developments in the Clinical Risk sector, to keep you up to date and to assist with the constant challenge of improving patient safety. In this edition we celebrate recent…
Gross negligence manslaughter in healthcare: What’s the latest? By Tracey Longfield We look at the ‘Independent Review of Gross Negligence Manslaughter and Culpable Homicide’ report’s key findings and some of the changes it envisages in the ongoing quest for a true ‘learning not blaming’ culture.
GP Indemnity Scheme – Everything you need to know By Rachel Roberts-Jenkins The new GP indemnity scheme, called the Clinical Negligence Scheme for General Practice (CNSGP), went live on 1 April 2019.
Secrets and lies: dishonest exaggeration in clinical negligence claims By Mark Ashley NHS Resolution's recent success in the Lesley Elder case highlights the increasing importance of undertaking investigations where there are genuine questions around exaggeration or fabrication. In this briefing note we examine the options available…
Successful defence of a consent case in the Court of Appeal By Sarah Wood It is increasingly common for clinical negligence claims to involve allegations around consent, but as this recent Court of Appeal judgment demonstrates it can be very hard for claimants to succeed on causation. In the case of Diamond, DAC…
The unchanging chance of winning on No.7 - Trial success for the Defendant in surgery which would always have taken place By Mark Ashley In the recent case of Pomphrey v. Secretary of State for Health and North Bristol NHS Trust [2019] 4 WLUK 483, where DAC Beachcroft acted for the Defendants, the High Court specifically looked at the causative potency of complications from surgery…
Health Adviser: Issue 20 By Nigel Montgomery The latest version of our Health Adviser magazine is now available online, click on the articles below to find out more. DAC Beachcroft’s Health Adviser publications seek to provide insight, foresight and thought-provoking features and articles…
Can mental health support teams help with the surge in demand for services within UK schools? By Gill Weatherill Schools will soon begin piloting a scheme that will see support teams work with children in a bid to address concerns surrounding mental health in young people. Journalist Jo Carlowe takes a closer look.
