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.
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By Nigel Montgomery
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By Nigel Montgomery
Events and online training for the health and social care sector.
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By Giles Peel
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By Aideen Ryan
In February we wrote a legal update on the case of General Medical Council v Dr Bawa-Garba…
By Taylor Hackett
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By Peter Merchant
It's been a long time coming, but the government has just published its response to the consultation it ran two years ago on significant changes to…
By Corinne Slingo
The NHS has seen many changes since its inception in 1948…
By Anne Crofts
DAC Beachcroft is proud to have been a partner to the NHS since its inception in 1948…
By Gill Weatherill
Throughout the 70-year lifespan of the NHS, mental health services have evolved in line with the changing health and social care system…
By Corinne Slingo
In the wake of the controversial Bawa-Garba case, the government commissioned a rapid policy review into the prosecution of doctors for gross…
By Anne Crofts
Taking a look at the lessons that can be learned by the NHS in the wake of Carillion's collapse.
By Rachel Roberts-Jenkins
The NHS is valued by patients for its quality of care and is considered to be one of the leading health and care services in the world…
By Nigel Montgomery
With the NHS celebrating its 70th anniversary, DAC Beachcroft highlights some of the company’s contributions to the development of the health…