Brexit: practical implications By Mathew Rutter Our views and guidance on the implications of Brexit for the business community.
Charities This collection looks at the latest news and comment on charities. What is a Collection? A Collection is a selection of features, articles, comments and opinions on any given theme or topic. It allows you to stay up-to-date with what interests…
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
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…
DAC Beachcroft's Digital Healthcare Technology Report 2019 By Hamza Drabu Digital Healthcare Technology: Enabling Clinicians, Empowering Patients
Health Adviser By Nigel Montgomery Health Adviser is an industry publication, produced by DAC Beachcroft, 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. …
Health and Care Bill Insights By Nigel Montgomery The introduction of the Health and Care Bill 2021 to Parliament has set out the government’s vision - informed by extensive engagement with the NHS, of future arrangements for the provision of effective, safe and sustainable health services. 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
Charities Update - May 2022 By Emma-Jane Dalley As ever, there has been lots happening in the world of charity law and regulation and, in this edition of our Charities Update, we take a look at the hot topics of anti-corruption compliance, including in the context of sanctions, and the latest on…
Update on Charity Commission inquiries By Emma-Jane Dalley Over the last three months there have been a number of Charity Commission inquiry reports published.
How anti-corruption compliant is your charity? By Anne-Marie Gregory Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, compliance focus has been (understandably) dominated by the way in which the UK and other countries have responded through the use of sanctions. This has also shone a spotlight on many other areas of…
Ethical investment - latest for charities on striking the right balance By Emma-Jane Dalley How should charity trustees approach the thorny issue of avoiding investments that conflict with their charity’s purposes whilst at the same time trying to maximise financial returns?
Charities Act 2022 - when will the changes happen? By Emma-Jane Dalley As reported in our last Charities Update the Charities Bill received Royal Assent on 24 February 2022, becoming the Charities Act 2022 (‘the Act’). This new legislation aims to save time and money for charities by reducing unnecessary bureaucracy.
Virtual meetings - does your charity’s governing document allow them? By Emma-Jane Dalley The Charity Commission has recently removed the flexibility it applied during the pandemic for charities to hold meetings virtually regardless of what their governing document said about this. Charities can therefore now only hold meetings online,…
Health and Care Act 2022: Preventing modern slavery in NHS supply chains By Katherine Calder Shortly before the Health and Care Bill 2021 (‘the Bill’) was given Royal Assent on 28 April 2022 and became the Health and Care Act 2022 (‘the Act’), the Department of Health and Social Care announced that it had tabled a “landmark amendment” to…
The Final Ockenden Report By Ciaran Claffey The Final Ockenden Report is an Independent Review of the Maternity Services at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust. It follows an initial report that was published in December 2020 and came about due to a number of concerns raised by…
Prevention of Future Deaths Reports – a look at themes By Peter Merchant The steady flow of Prevention of Future Deaths Reports (PFDs) issued by coroners to health and social care providers continues, but what can we learn from them?
Charities Update By Emma-Jane Dalley As life begins to return to normal in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, changes are afoot for the charities sector. In this update, we look at some key developments charities and their trustees should be aware of, including lessons to be learned…