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
DAC Beachcroft's Digital Healthcare Technology Report 2019 By Hamza Drabu Digital Healthcare Technology: Enabling Clinicians, Empowering Patients
ESG in Health and Social Care By Anna Hart For the latest news and comment on ESG in Health and Social Care
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
Health corporate regulatory For all the latest news and comment in corporate regulatory healthcare law
MedTech The MedTech Collection brings you topical news relating to medical technology in Europe, bringing together clinicians, engineers and scientists as they design and manufacture novel solutions for patients.
ESG in Health and Social Care By Anna Hart Environmental, Social and Governance (”ESG”) considerations flow through almost every decision and activity undertaken across the health and social care landscape, and in many ways, everything about health and social care provision is ESG…
Health Adviser - Issue 23: Tackling Inequalities By Nigel Montgomery Our health team has today launched the latest edition of Health Adviser – DACB’s flagship publication for the health sector, focused on the theme of ‘tackling inequalities in health and social care’. Much of the recent media attention on health…
NHSE consults on proposals to broaden oversight over independent providers of NHS services In a consultation published on 25 January, NHS England (“NHSE”) proposes to oversee standards of quality governance for some licensed independent providers of NHS services (“IPs”). It also seeks views on a new policy for identifying IPs which are…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Procurement law case update: Veridos - what to do when presented with tenders that appear abnormally low By Ed Williams A new judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”), Case C‑669/20 – Veridos , provides further guidance on the steps that should be taken by Contracting Authorities and Utilities when presented with tenders that appear to be…
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…
Trustee duties on bullying and harassment By Emma-Jane Dalley In August the Charity Commission clarified the responsibilities of trustees in preventing and responding to incidents of bulling and harassment in their charities.