Brexit: practical implications By Mathew Rutter Our views and guidance on the implications of Brexit for the business community.
Charities This collection looks at the latest news and comment on charities. What is a Collection? A Collection is a selection of features, articles, comments and opinions on any given theme or topic. It allows you to stay up-to-date with what interests…
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
Mental Health Bill - thoughts on the proposals By Helen Kingston The government has now published the draft Mental Health Bill following the consultation on the White Paper proposals. A number of the reform proposals that were set out in the White Paper have not been taken forward in the draft Bill,…
New era of lower data breach fines for public authorities? By Sophie Devlin As set out in a recent open letter , the UK’s data regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), is trialling a fresh approach to data breach enforcement against public authorities. It intends to impose fines only in the most serious cases…
Medical Device Reform – creating a landscape for the future By Alison McAdams Following its public consultation on the future regulation of medical devices, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the UK’s regulator, has announced its plans to improve patient safety and encourage innovation.
Liquidated damages in commercial health projects By Hamza Drabu Liquidated damages (“LDs”) clauses are a common contractual feature in high value and/or complex commercial health projects. They are a useful tool for both customers and suppliers. From a customer’s perspective, they incentivise suppliers to…
NHS Resolution publishes report following thematic review of clinical negligence claims relating to diabetes and lower limb complications in England By Stuart Wallace NHS Resolution has published an important report on lower limb claims (the majority of which involving amputations) arising from diabetes in England, with the aim of improving patient care and reducing the number of claims being made.
Latest on what lies ahead for data in health and social care By Darryn Hale The final version of the Department of Health and Social Care’s data strategy - Data saves lives: reshaping health and social care with data - has now landed, which follows on from the draft version published for consultation last year (see our…
Monkeypox: What is it and what are the risks? By Thomas Jordan Monkeypox is a virus which is endemic in Central and West Africa but there have been increasing numbers of cases reported, with potential community infection, in the rest of the world including the UK. In this article our experts consider the…
Charities Update - May 2022 By Emma-Jane Dalley As ever, there has been lots happening in the world of charity law and regulation and, in this edition of our Charities Update, we take a look at the hot topics of anti-corruption compliance, including in the context of sanctions, and the latest on…
Update on Charity Commission inquiries By Emma-Jane Dalley Over the last three months there have been a number of Charity Commission inquiry reports published.
How anti-corruption compliant is your charity? By Anne-Marie Gregory Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, compliance focus has been (understandably) dominated by the way in which the UK and other countries have responded through the use of sanctions. This has also shone a spotlight on many other areas of…
