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
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…
MHRA gives extra time to CE marked medical devices By Alison McAdams In a welcome announcement, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has stated that certain CE marked medical devices may be placed on the Great Britain market until June 2028 or even June 2030.
How will CQC assess ICSs? - what we know so far By Gill Weatherill The CQC now has new powers (since 1 April 2023) to assess Integrated Care Systems (ICSs). As outlined in CQC’s recently published interim guidance on this, these assessments will be carried out using a sub-set of the quality statements in the…
Prevention of Future Deaths Reports in inquests - what are the recurring themes for health and social care? By Gill Weatherill The purpose of Prevention of Future Deaths Reports (PFDs) issued by coroners is to bring about positive change by promoting learning from deaths. However, to capitalise fully on the power of PFDs to drive improvements in care, the lessons learned…
Vaccination Compensation Scheme By Laurence Mulligan Mr Justice Charles Meenan, in his December 2020 report into the handling of medical negligence claims, recommended, as a matter of urgency, the introduction of a vaccination compensation scheme. Subsequent to the publication of the Report , the…
Assisted Decision-Making (Amendment) Bill 2022 By Laurence Mulligan The Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Act 2015 was signed into law on the 30 December 2015 but, until now, had never been fully commenced. A number of amendments to the Act were provided for in the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment)…
Time of the essence when seeking to renew a Summons – or to set aside that renewal By Aisling Crowley In this case the High Court considered an application to set aside an order renewing a Personal Injury Summons pursuant to Order 8, Rule 4 of the Rules of the Superior Courts. The Court noted that Order 8 had been amended in 2018 which amended the…
Adult Safeguarding in Ireland By Laurence Mulligan According to the Oireachtas the purpose of the Adult Safeguarding Bill 2017 is to make further and better provision for the care and protection of adults who are at risk; to establish the National Adult Safeguarding Authority and to require certain…
NHS England launches three year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services By Ciaran Claffey The past few years have seen the publication of some important reports that have highlighted problems with the provision of maternity and neonatal services in the NHS, including Dr Bill Kirkup’s Morecambe Bay review in 2015, his East Kent review in…
Inquests caselaw update: The requirements for clear conclusions about whether an event contributed to the death By Gemma Brannigan The Court of Appeal and High Court have been busy with coronial law during the start of 2023. In this briefing, we explain three court rulings that you need to know about;