The health and social care sector is facing unprecedented pressure in seeking to improve outcomes for the population against a backdrop of increasing demand from an ageing population, with increasing number of long term conditions and the rising costs of drugs and equipment.
Against this backdrop commissioners and providers of health and social care are continually looking to improve patient and service user outcomes, within a safe and open environment, that is easy to access and is financially affordable.
With over 60 years’ experience working in healthcare, DAC Beachcroft is regarded as market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial, regulatory, employment and clinical risk legal advice to providers and commissioners in the sector.
Our national team of expert lawyers already provide over 300 public sector and independent healthcare providers and commissioners with truly market-leading innovative, practical legal and governance advice to enable organisations to focus on the delivery of high quality, safe patient care.
We’re forever anticipating, translating and articulating the consequences of legal and regulatory change for healthcare clients, such as the development of health and social care integration, industry-wide consultations or the impact of legislative changes affecting the sector.
We’re a pioneering practitioner of healthcare law. Our team of expert partners, lawyers and specialists are able to apply years and years of insight and intelligence to craft imaginative solutions to resolve clients’ healthcare challenges today – and beyond.
What’s best for our clients is what matters most. We’re fearless in standing up for our clients and their ambitions, but are refreshingly clear with our advice for clients too.
We always aim for client management that’s so seamlessly fluent that our clients find it hard to tell where their team ends and DAC Beachcroft’s begins.
"They deal with complexity and make it easy, and find a way forward for me. We can discuss strategies about how to deal with difficult employee relation cases." Chambers and Partners UK 2018 Edition, Healthcare, UK-wide
"The ‘excellent’ team displays ‘responsiveness, good knowledge of issues facing the trust’ and gives ‘speedy, clear and concise advice’. It is adept at handling a broad range of mandates in the sector, drawing on its solid knowledge of, and experience in, dealing with the NHS and independent health sector actors." Legal 500 UK 2017 Edition, Public Sector: Health, Bristol
"Fantastic health practice." Chambers and Partners UK 2016 Edition, Healthcare, UK Wide
"Excellent and responsive service all round." Chambers and Partners UK 2016 Edition, Healthcare: Mental Health, UK Wide
"They have a good skill set and a wide range of experience. We are very pleased with the services provided." Chambers and Partners UK 2015 Edition, Healthcare, UK Wide
By Virginia Clegg
Analysis, commentary and checklists on the legal and governance implications of Brexit on businesses operating in, and trading with, the UK.
By Nigel Montgomery
For all the latest news and comment in clinical negligence healthcare law
By Corinne Slingo
For all the latest news and comment in clinical regulatory healthcare law
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…
By Nigel Montgomery
This collection looks at the latest strategic, commercial, regulatory and negligence legal and advisory news and comment in health and social care. Health Adviser is an industry publication, produced by DAC Beachcroft, providing insight, foresight…
By Hamza Drabu
For all the latest legal and regulatory news and comment in health and social care integration
For all the latest news and comment in corporate regulatory healthcare law
By Udara Ranasinghe
For all the latest news and comment in employment and pensions healthcare law
By Anne Batanero
For all the latest legal and regulatory news and comment in healthcare estates and facilities management
By Andrew Rankin
For all the latest legal and regulatory news and comment in health technology
By Gill Weatherill
Following on from our alert on the legislative changes set out within the Plan we consider the impact of the Plan on mental health services.
By Robyn Reed
Portable oxygen systems are used extensively throughout the NHS. Safe delivery of oxygen is crucial…
By Nigel Montgomery
The long awaited NHS Long Term Plan has been published…
By Kristian Hansen
To what extent can a GP Practice be held vicariously liable for the acts of Locum GPs it engages? That question, and more, was considered by Mr…
By Alistair Robertson
The Court of Appeal has dismissed a challenge to the payment mechanism – the “Whole Population Annual Payment” (“WPAP”) proposed by NHS England and…
By Gill Weatherill
We now have the Supreme Court conclusion to the long-running issue of Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) and deprivation of liberty…
By Jonathan Bonser
DAC Beachcroft were recently involved in a successful strike out application in which the Court confirmed that there was no duty of care on…
By Katy Horner
Experts from DAC Beachcroft, Katy Horner and Rebecca Cole host a live webinar on behalf of HPMA looking at mental health in the workplace The…
By Max Slinger
Consider the following scenario: expectant parents attend an antenatal clinic where they are told that the fetus is healthy…
By Gill Weatherill
What does the future hold for the Mental Health Act? With the full report of the government-commissioned independent review of the Mental Health…