Next step in medical device reform – new GB post-market surveillance rules published By Alison McAdams, , Hamza Drabu As part of the UK government's ongoing reform of medical device regulation in the UK, a draft…
MHRA gives extra time to CE marked medical devices By Alison McAdams, Hamza Drabu, Olya Melnitchouk In a welcome announcement, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has…
Digital Health Insights - 10 key legal considerations when developing a health app By Hamza Drabu, Darryn Hale, , Kate Loxton Welcome to Digital Health Insights , DACB’s new series providing practical insight into key legal…
Driving innovation and growth in Life Sciences By Alison McAdams, Hamza Drabu, Charlotte Radcliffe After the many challenges that the life sciences and healthcare sectors have faced in recent years,…
Updated guidance for assuring NHS transactions: what you need to know By Hamza Drabu, Alistair Robertson, Soo Sing Patel NHS England (“NHSE”) published updated guidance for assuring NHS transactions (“the Guidance”) on…
Wisely and slow - timetable for UK Medical Device reform delayed By Alison McAdams, Hamza Drabu, Olya Melnitchouk The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has published a decision to…
MHRA publishes medical software and AI roadmap for way ahead By Alison McAdams, Hamza Drabu, Darryn Hale The Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has published a roadmap setting out how…
Medical Device Reform – creating a landscape for the future By Alison McAdams, Hamza Drabu, Olya Melnitchouk Following its public consultation on the future regulation of medical devices, the Medicines and…
Liquidated damages in commercial health projects By Hamza Drabu, Carol Sumner, Liquidated damages (“LDs”) clauses are a common contractual feature in high value and/or complex…
Provider Selection Regime: Starter for ten on the supplementary consultation By , Hamza Drabu, Victoria Fletcher, Katherine Calder In our previous briefing, we considered the impact of both the NHS Provider Selection Regime…
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…
Privacy-enhancing technologies in the health sector - your chance to get involved By Hamza Drabu, Darryn Hale The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is inviting organisations in the health sector to…
Cross-border healthcare provision: Healthcare sans frontiers By Hamza Drabu The Covid-19 pandemic is the latest example of a truly global health crisis…
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…
Medical device reform - balancing responsible innovation and patient safety By Alison McAdams, Hamza Drabu, Sean Doherty Following the UK’s departure from the European Union, the UK’s medical devices regulator, the…
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: Implications for social care providers By Anna Hart, Hamza Drabu, Anne-Marie Gregory Continuing our series of briefings about the Health and Care Bill 2021, we focus here on the impact…
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: what does it mean for data? By Hamza Drabu, Darryn Hale, Sophie Devlin In the latest of our series of briefings on the Health and Care Bill (“the Bill”), we look at the…
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…
Health and care data: time to level up? By Darryn Hale, Hamza Drabu, Sophie Devlin The government’s data strategy has now landed, and it is impressive in both scope and ambition…
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 …
Comparing national approaches: improvise, adapt, overcome By Hamza Drabu Covid-19 represents one of the biggest singular global ‘events’ of recent memory…
The EU Proposal for Regulation of Artificial Intelligence: meaningful steps toward grasping the medico-legal nettle? By Hamza Drabu, Alison McAdams, Jonathan Bonser, Christian Carr On 21 April, the European Commission published its bold proposal 1 for a regulation laying down…
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…
Mirage or oasis? Navigating rapid changes in the digital landscape By Hamza Drabu Covid-19 has escalated the emergence and adoption of new digital healthcare solutions, many of them…
Worked Examples – an integral part of a contract By Hamza Drabu, In a recent High Court decision (Altera Voyageur Production Ltd v Premier Oil E&P UK Ltd [2020]…
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,…
What next for NHS data? By Hamza Drabu, Andrew Johnston, Darryn Hale The NHS holds patient records relating to over 55 million people, which if curated across primary,…
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…
Unlocking the value of NHS patient data By Hamza Drabu, Darryn Hale There is currently much excitement about the opportunities for maximising the benefit of NHS data…
Enter Sandbox - New CQC requirements for digital clinical triage tools By Hamza Drabu, Christian Carr CQC has published its findings from its first ‘regulatory sandboxing’ exercise, the output of which…
Emerging Technologies – the use of Robotics in surgical procedures By Hamza Drabu, Alison McAdams, Darryn Hale, The use of technology in the healthcare sector is rapidly expanding and continues to play a key…
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…
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…
How MedTech is revolutionising healthcare By Hamza Drabu The plan to transform the NHS in England over the next decade will rely heavily on various…
The NHS Long Term Plan balancing act By Hamza Drabu When he launched the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England Chief Executive, Simon Stevens, called for the…
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…
Digital healthcare technology: mental health By Hamza Drabu, Gill Weatherill How the mental health sector is leading the way in technology helping vulnerable patients…
Digital healthcare technology: information sharing By Hamza Drabu, Darryn Hale Technology is changing the way both clinicians and patients can access their data…
Digital healthcare technology: summary By Hamza Drabu As this report highlights, the implementation of technology is improving patient care…
Digital healthcare technology: primary care By Hamza Drabu The commitment to digital-first primary care is clearly stated in the NHS Long Term Plan…
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: governance for integration By Hamza Drabu, Anne Crofts The word ‘governance’ appears four times in the NHS Long term plan (LTP); three times in relation…
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 - what does this mean for data? By Darryn Hale, Sophie Devlin, Hamza Drabu In our latest briefing on the NHS Long Term Plan we examine its approach to utilising data.
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…
The NHS Long Term Plan - our view on the proposed legislative changes By Nigel Montgomery, Hamza Drabu, Alistair Robertson, Anne Crofts The long awaited NHS Long Term Plan has been published…
Regulating NHS provider-owned companies – NHS Improvement issues updated guidance By Hamza Drabu, Anne Crofts, Alistair Robertson, Louise Watson-Jones, Anne-Marie Gregory NHSI has now issued guidance (the “ Guidance ”) which is effective from 26 November 2018 …
Commissioning to unleash the potential of data-driven health and care By Darryn Hale, Hamza Drabu At NHS Expo 2018, we saw the commitment of the NHS to technology and innovation as a key theme,…
Unleashing the potential of data-driven health and care By Darryn Hale, Hamza Drabu, Christian Carr At NHS Expo 2018, we saw the commitment of the NHS to technology and innovation as a key theme,…
GDPR: What does it mean for commissioners? By Hamza Drabu, Sarah Woods The date of 25 May 2018 looms large on the horizon for all those who process personal data, when…
Clouded judgment: when is software regulated as a medical device? By Alison McAdams, Hamza Drabu, Christian Carr Technology is revolutionising medicine and software is increasingly used in healthcare to help both…
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…
STPs: a four part guide By Hamza Drabu Across 44 geographical areas in England, local NHS organisations and Councils have formed…
Contracting for collaboration and efficiency By Charlotte Burnett, Hamza Drabu, Louise Watson-Jones Collaboration means many different things to different people in the NHS…
Leading by example By Hamza Drabu Workforce reforms feature heavily in Lord Carter of Coles’ recent hospital efficiency…
Improving outcomes with collaboration By Hamza Drabu In the second part of LaingBuisson 's Healthcare Market News' series on Accountable Care…
After the Wachter Review: What’s next for healthcare technology in England? By Hamza Drabu The long-awaited Wachter Review was published on 7th September 2016…
First practical guidance on how to successfully implement new models of care By Anne Crofts, Hamza Drabu When it comes to the strategic issues around integrating health and social care services, what's…
New contracting models and new opportunities By Hamza Drabu Hamza Drabu writes for the publication Healthcare Market News and looks at how commissioners are…
The Route to Integrated Healthcare By Anne Crofts, Hamza Drabu Providing the first practical examples of how to deliver the NHS Five Year Forward View, DAC…
Part three: Contracting and corporate structures By Hamza Drabu Integrating health and social care is like assembling a giant set of three dimensional jigsaws…
Part five: The leadership view By Anne Crofts, Hamza Drabu We asked five leaders from across the health and social care landscape to give us their views on…
Part six: Recommendations By Anne Crofts, Hamza Drabu Read our summary of recommendations around how to take the next steps on the road to realising the…
Vanguards to the Rescue By Hamza Drabu The new models of care introduced by the NHS Five Year Forward View are being touted as the future…
Community Contracts By Hamza Drabu In the old world, prior to 1 April 2013, when primary care trusts (PCTs) commissioned primary care…