Integrating health and social care - a new White Paper joining up care for people, places and populations By Hamza Drabu, Charlotte Burnett, Alistair Robertson As the Health and Care Bill goes through the final stages in the House of Lords, and the White…
Changes to the NHS transactions guidance - have your say By Hamza Drabu, Charlotte Burnett, Sarah Foster The current version of the “ NHS transactions guidance ” (the Guidance) is now 4 years old and - in…
Transition from CCGs to ICBs - due diligence checklist By Charlotte Burnett, Sarah Foster, Once the Health and Care Bill 2021 receives royal assent, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) will…
Health and Care Bill 2021: The role of Local Authorities in Integrated Care Systems By Anna Hart, Charlotte Burnett, Hamza Drabu In the last of our current series of comment pieces on the Health and Care Bill 2021, we consider…
Health and Care Bill 2021: Place-based partnerships - the engine room of an ICS By Charlotte Burnett, Alistair Robertson, Anne-Marie Gregory, Hamza Drabu, Sarah Foster The Health and Care Bill 2021 (“Bill”) is first and foremost concerned with legislating for changes…
Health and Care Bill 2021: Provider Selection By Katherine Calder, Charlotte Burnett, In the next of our series of briefings on the Health and Care Bill, we look at the Government’s…
The power of local autonomy in delivering healthcare By Charlotte Burnett Emerging from the command-and-control model that existed during the coronavirus pandemic, the power…
Health and Care Bill 2021: the latest on provider collaboratives By Hamza Drabu, Alistair Robertson, Charlotte Burnett, Anne-Marie Gregory Continuing our series of briefings on the Health and Care Bill (‘the Bill’), we look beyond the…
Health and Care Bill 2021: meeting the triple aim duty By Hamza Drabu, Alistair Robertson, Charlotte Burnett, Anne-Marie Gregory In this briefing, we focus in on the “triple aim” to which NHS England, Integrated Care Boards…
Health and Care Bill 2021 - ICS governance - laying firm foundations By Hamza Drabu, Charlotte Burnett, Alistair Robertson In the first of our series of briefings on the Health and Care Bill 2021, we discussed some of the…
Health and Care Bill 2021 - initial key questions for systems By Hamza Drabu, Charlotte Burnett, Alistair Robertson, Anne-Marie Gregory Our ‘Health and Care Bill Insights’ series is designed to focus on the implications of the Bill and…
NHS England & Improvement release Integrated Care System Design Framework By Hamza Drabu, Charlotte Burnett, Alistair Robertson Yesterday saw the publication of NHS England and NHS Improvement’s ICS Design Framework …
Response to the Provider Selection Regime Consultation By Hamza Drabu, Alistair Robertson, Charlotte Burnett, Katherine Calder On 12th February we summarised for you the top 10 takeaways from the Government’s proposals for…
Loosening the ties that bind: new NHS procurement regime proposed By Katherine Calder, Hamza Drabu, Charlotte Burnett, Alistair Robertson, Victoria Fletcher On 12 th February we summarised for you the top 10 takeaways from the Government’s proposals for…
A short guide to the key COVID-19 legal developments in the health sector By Corinne Slingo, Gill Weatherill, Udara Ranasinghe, Hamza Drabu, Charlotte Burnett, Alistair Robertson In light of the national COVID19 emergency, our health sector clients are under enormous pressure,…
Key COVID-19 legal developments in the health sector: NHS Standard Contract developments By Hamza Drabu, Charlotte Burnett, Alistair Robertson Following the letter from Sir Simon Stevens and Amanda Pritchard dated 17 March 2020 setting out…
NHS Standard Contract Update By Charlotte Burnett, Hamza Drabu NHS England has published the 2020/21 versions of the Full-Length and Shorter-Form NHS Standard…
What do the new Primary Care Network services for 2020/21 mean for CCGs? By Charlotte Burnett, Chris Waite Primary Care Networks are gathering pace…
COVID-19: Briefing Bulletin - Health By Nick Chronias, Corinne Slingo, Charlotte Burnett, Alistair Robertson DAC Beachcroft is receiving an increasing number of client requests on Covid-19 issues…
NHS England and NHS Improvement’s response to the policy consultation on digital-first primary care By Charlotte Burnett, Hamza Drabu, Sarah Foster In June 2019, NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE/I) undertook a public consultation on…
Updates to the ICP contract package By Charlotte Burnett, Chris Waite In August 2019, NHS England published updated versions of the ICP contract and support documents…
Our response to NHS England and NHS Improvement’s consultation on changes to Digital-First Primary Care By Hamza Drabu, Charlotte Burnett, Sarah Foster We updated clients last month about NHS England and NHS Improvement’s Digital-First Primary Care…
NHS England and NHS Improvement’s Consultation on Changes to Digital-First Primary Care By Hamza Drabu, Sarah Foster, Charlotte Burnett NHS England and NHS Improvement (“ NHSE/I ”) have published the Digital-First Primary Care…
Primary Care Networks - Completing the Network Agreement By Hamza Drabu, Charlotte Burnett, Sarah Foster, Chris Waite The template Network Agreement, guidance and associated documents for the establishment of Primary…
The NHS Long Term Plan from a Commissioning Perspective By Darryn Hale, Hamza Drabu, Charlotte Burnett The LTP sets out a number of changes that will change the future of commissioning within the NHS…
The NHS Long Term Plan: Digital-First Primary Care By Hamza Drabu, Charlotte Burnett The NHS may not be the quickest to adopt new technology (Secretary of State Matt Hancock recently…
The NHS Long Term Plan: Primary Care Networks By Charlotte Burnett, Hamza Drabu At the heart of the NHS Long Term Plan is the principle that prevention is better than cure; and…
A Guide to the Integrated Support and Assurance Process By Hamza Drabu, Charlotte Burnett, Alistair Robertson The development of new models of care requires traditional boundaries between health services to be…
Contracting for collaboration and efficiency By Charlotte Burnett, Hamza Drabu, Louise Watson-Jones Collaboration means many different things to different people in the NHS…
NHS England's PACS Guidance: Bridging the gap between primary and secondary care By Charlotte Burnett NHS England's "Integrated Primary and Acute Care Systems (PACS) – Describing the care model and the…
Slotting into place By Charlotte Burnett Multispecialty Community Providers (MCPs) have the potential to redefine the healthcare framework…
NHS England's MCP framework – an insight into the future for MCPs By Charlotte Burnett NHS England has published "The Multispecialty Community Provider (MCP) emerging care model and…
The Dalton Review: Change is not optional By Anne Crofts, Charlotte Burnett The pressure on NHS providers to improve performance whilst also embracing rapid transformative…
FM & Estate Transformation Projects in the NHS - March 2014 By Charlotte Burnett With £20 billion of efficiency savings yet to be achieved and growing financial gaps impacting on…