Brexit: practical implications By Mathew Rutter Our views and guidance on the implications of Brexit for the business community.
Charities and Not-For-Profit Our specialist lawyers are passionate about the charity sector and many are charity trustees themselves. They have a deep understanding of the regulatory environment in which charities and other not for profit organisations operate and help clients…
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
GC Collective By Ben Daniels The GC Collective collection offers insight and comment for General Counsels (GCs) and in-house legal teams.
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 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
New Act and New Thresholds - Procurement Update By Katherine Calder The Procurement Act 2023 (formerly the Procurement Bill) (the "Procurement Act") received Royal Assent on the 26 October 2023. However, contracting authorities should note that the Procurement Act is not expected to come into force until October…
CQC's new assessment approach - what providers need to know By Gill Weatherill It's been a long time in the planning, but CQC's new approach to assessing health and social care providers is about to become a reality. Is your organisation up-to-speed with what's changing and when? In this briefing, we look at the headline…
Provider Selection Regime coming into force on 1 January 2024 By Katherine Calder Over two years have passed since NHS England's first consultation on the proposed new rules for arranging healthcare services, but The draft Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 (the "Regulations") are now here. The…
Procurement case law update: Teleperformance Contact Limited v Secretary of State for the Home Department and VF Worldwide Holdings Ltd [2023] EWHC 2481 (TCC) By Ed Williams DAC Beachcroft LLP has successfully secured judgment in favour of lifting the automatic suspension that was preventing its client, VFS Global, from entering into contracts with the UK Home Office worth over £750 million.
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…
The latest on draft regulations to implement the Procurement Bill By Katherine Calder The second part of the public consultation on the draft secondary legislation (The Procurement Act 2023 (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2024) ('the Draft Regulations') to implement the Procurement Bill ('the Bill') ran from 17 July 2023 - 25…
Updated NHS enforcement guidance - what providers and ICBs need to know By Alistair Robertson NHS England ('NHSE') has now published updated NHS enforcement guidance following a statutory consultation last autumn. The guidance meets two purposes:
Next step in medical device reform – new GB post-market surveillance rules published By Alison McAdams As part of the UK government's ongoing reform of medical device regulation in the UK, a draft statutory instrument has been published to amend the existing post-market surveillance regulations in Great Britain. While details of the wider future…
s.117- The Final Word? By Sarah Woods Summary After a long period of uncertainty, we now have the final answer from the Supreme Court in relation to the case of R (on the application of Worcestershire County Council) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and…
Changes to NHS fertility policy anticipated after discrimination claim withdrawn By Amy Smith It has been reported that Whitney and Megan Bacon-Evans have formally withdrawn their case in the High Court against NHS Frimley ICB after it agreed to introduce a new policy which "intends to tackle inequality faced by same-sex female couple in…