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
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
AI in Healthcare Podcast Series By Stuart Wallace We are pleased to launch a short series of two podcasts on AI in which we discuss with experts how the NHS is, today, using AI to improve its services, as well as how indemnifiers in the wider insurance market are addressing some of the challenges…
Procurement case law update: Bromcom v United Learning Trust By Katherine Calder A very interesting judgment was handed down in Bromcom Computers PLC v (1) United Learning Trust and (2) United Church Schools Trust shortly before Christmas ([2022] EWHC 3262 (TCC)). From a contracting authority’s perspective, the judgment is…
High Court delivers judgment in obstetric case relating to care provided in 1996 By Mark Ashley On 11 January 2023 Mr Justice Ritchie handed down judgment in the case of CNZ v Royal Bath Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust . The case relates to obstetric care that the Claimant’s mother received 27 years ago.
High Court rejects argument that changes to procurement law mean automatic suspension should be maintained By Katherine Calder The High Court has rejected a novel argument mounted by an unsuccessful bidder in a prison healthcare claim that the automatic suspension should remain in place including by reason of the new reform of procurement law which will place such contract…
Court of Protection orders for section 49 reports reined in at last? By Paul McGough Section 49 of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 gives the Court of Protection the power to order a report from a local authority or an NHS body on any matter relevant to the decision the Court is being asked to make. Commonly the Court will order an NHS…
Value for below-threshold advertising requirements corrected for NHS Foundation Trusts By Katherine Calder The Public Contracts (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (‘SI 2022/1390’) came into force on 21 December 2022. This corrects anomalies relating to the inclusion of VAT in contract values, and the different treatment of NHS Foundation Trusts and NHS Trusts…
Challenging the fairness of CQC reports: latest from the courts By Gill Weatherill Health and social care providers will be acutely aware that poor ratings in CQC inspection reports have the potential to “wreak serious economic and reputational damage”, as was acknowledged by the judge in the recent case of R (on the…
Employers, Are You Complying With Your Automatic Enrolment Obligations? By Beth Brown Last month we celebrated the 10 year anniversary of automatic enrolment on 31 October and saw the publication of a report setting out the findings from a qualitative study by the Department for Work and Pensions. The good news is that most employers…
Updated guidance for assuring NHS transactions: what you need to know By Hamza Drabu NHS England (“NHSE”) published updated guidance for assuring NHS transactions (“the Guidance”) on 11 October 2022, almost a year after it was consulted on. The previous version of the Guidance was 5 years old and has now been refreshed to reflect…
New from the Court of Appeal: an inquest is not a ‘surrogate public inquiry’ By Peter Merchant As the arguments about whether an inquest should be a wider ‘Article 2’ inquiry rumble on in Coroners’ courts up and down the country, we now have the latest chapter on this from the Court of Appeal. The case of Morahan involved a voluntary…
