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 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
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…
Challenging charity registration By Emma-Jane Dalley In a recent case , the charity Mermaids sought to challenge the decision of the Charity Commission to register the LGB Alliance as a charity. This article looks at the outcome in the case and what it means for charities.
Charities update - July 2023 By Emma-Jane Dalley In this edition of our newsletter we look at a number of recent developments impacting charities, including two recent cases. The first relates to whether a charity met the public benefit requirement for mandatory rates relief taking into account…
Changes to charity legislation and guidance By Emma-Jane Dalley This article reviews the second set of changes being introduced by the Charities Act 2022, which came into force on 14 June. These changes relate to the disposal of charity land, permanent endowment and charity names.
A question of public benefit By Emma-Jane Dalley In this article we look at the recent Supreme Court judgment in Merton LBC v Nuffield Health . This was a case about whether Nuffield Health was entitled to claim charitable rates relief on one of its members- only gyms in South London, but raised…
