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
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…
Wisely and slow - timetable for UK Medical Device reform delayed By Alison McAdams The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has published a decision to introduce a 12-month extension before the implementation of the UK’s new Medical Device Regulations. With the government still to produce draft legislation,…
MHRA publishes medical software and AI roadmap for way ahead By Alison McAdams The Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has published a roadmap setting out how it will regulate software and artificial intelligence (AI) medical devices in the UK.
CQC clamps down on mental capacity By Gill Weatherill In a stark reminder to all health and social care providers of the importance of getting it right on consent and mental capacity, an NHS Trust has been fined £8,000 by the CQC for breaching regulatory requirements around consent and compliance with…
Charities update: changes to rules on ex gratia payments delayed By Emma-Jane Dalley In our recent article for charities setting out the latest on changes to be introduced by the Charities Act 2022, we touched on ‘ex gratia’ payments by charities - i.e. payments made by charities for moral rather than contractual reasons. New…
Procurement Bill 2022: focus on conflicts of interest By Phoebe Baxter As with many of the clauses set out in the recent Procurement Bill, at first glance the provisions on conflicts of interest appear to be broadly similar to those we are more familiar with in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Clause 74 deals…
NHS Resolution publish the second report on the Early Notification Scheme By Emily Senior The Early Notification (EN) scheme started in April 2017 and changed the landscape for the investigation of potential claims arising from injuries sustained by babies at birth. In this article we look at the findings of the scheme’s second report,…
Charities update - September 2022 By Emma-Jane Dalley More changes are afoot for charities and, in this edition of our newsletter, we focus on important developments relating to how charities approach bullying and harassment and the latest on implementation of the Charities Act 2022, plus we shine a…
