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I am a highly experienced health and social care lawyer, specialising in commercial, corporate and regulatory law. I am recommended by Legal 500 and ranked in Chambers and Partners and lead Bevan Brittan’s work in supporting organisations to deliver new models of care and integrated care systems.
I have extensive experience of advising organisations on a diverse range of commercial, corporate and regulatory transactional matters, including the development of services; policies and procedures; the establishment of corporate vehicles and contractual structures; mergers, acquisitions, disposals, reconfigurations, reorganisations and service transfers; public engagement and consultation; outsourcing and insourcing; pharmacy law; the legal, regulatory and commercial contract issues in primary care; and the constitutional, governance and regulatory issues facing NHS trusts, foundation trusts and clinical commissioning groups.
Publications:
I have written a number of articles for the Health Service Journal and Health Investor.
Seminars and Training:
I regularly provide training and developmental support to Boards of Directors on a wide range of commercial, corporate governance and regulatory issues. I am a regular speaker at national and regional health and social care seminars and conferences.
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Contracting with the NHS - COVID 19 Update
02/04/2020
The Paterson Inquiry – key recommendations
04/02/2020
Arab Health 2018
23/01/2018
New NHS framework for assuring major contracts
18/11/2016
Publication of the 'Integrated Support and Assurance Process (ISAP) - An introduction to assuring novel and complex contracts'
Monitor's role in the new models of care
07/09/2015
Monitor and the Competition andMarkets Authority have jointly issued new guidance on the procedural approach to be taken at least...
Urgent and Emergency Care Vanguards
05/06/2015
NHS England has launched the Urgent and Emergency Care Vanguard Programme following Professor Sir Bruce Keogh's Urgent and...
Acute Care Collaboration Vanguards
21/05/2015
NHS England has launched the Acute Care Collaboration Vanguard Programme for smaller acute hospitals to develop and test...
Competition Law - new rules for mergers
10/04/2014
The NHS has been trying to get to grips with a new set of regulators and rules in particular in connection with mergers of NHS...
Updated guidance for NHS Foundation Trust governors
16/08/2013
Monitor, in association with (among others) the Care Quality Commission and the Foundation Trust Governors' Association, has...
Quality Governance: How does your board know that its organisation is...
08/05/2013
Monitor has issued its latest guidance “Quality Governance: How does a board know that its organisation is working effectively to...
Performers List matters – an introduction to the new framework and an...
29/04/2013
Performers List matters – an introduction to the new framework and an overview of its application
Health and Social Care Act 2012: Key reforms to Foundation Trust...
31/07/2012
The second Commencement Order for the Health and Social Care Act 2012 has now been published, bringing a number of key provisions...
Health and Social Care Act: repeal of the private patient income cap.....
30/03/2012
Considers the repeal of the private patient income cap andexplores how Foundation Trusts can generateincome from non-NHS activity<...
Glimpse of the future? Monitor reveals proposed licensing regime
17/11/2011
The Health and Social Care Bill 2011 (the "Bill") will not complete its passage through Parliament for some months and...
PMS contract termination clauses - court case
20/06/2011
Last year Bevan Brittan wrote an article Sharper teeth for PMS commissioners which clarified the rights of PCTs to terminate PMS...
NHS Future Forum report - Better late than never?
13/06/2011
We look at the NHS Future Forum's recommendations to Government on how the Health and Social Care Bill might be improved,...
Foundation Trust Application
27/08/2010
On 12 July 2010 the Government issued its White Paper "Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS" which states that all...
Transforming Community Services Agenda – what FTs need to know
27/08/2010
The Revisions to the NHS Operating Framework 2010/11 published by the Department of Health on 21 June 2010 confirm the new...
Health Alert: Detailed Guidance for the Dry-Run of External Assurance...
04/05/2010
Monitor has recently issued a detailed guidance for the Dry-Run of External Assurance on Quality Reports. The guidance sets out...
New Performers Lists Directions: PCT List Management Procedures due...
01/04/2010
New Performers Lists Directions: PCT List Management Procedures due for Review
Revised Code of Governance for NHS Foundation Trusts
26/03/2010
Revised Code of Governance for NHS Foundation Trusts
Sharper teeth for PMS commissioners
23/03/2010
From April 1 2010 the Department of Health will be rolling out amendments to the current PMS Agreement Regulations enabling PCTs...
Health Alert: GMC Consultation "Revalidation: the way ahead"
18/03/2010
In this article Vincent Buscemi looks at the GMC’s proposed new process of professional regulation for practitioners.
Health Alert: Consultation on the de-authorisation of NHS foundation...
17/03/2010
This article examines Monitor’s proposed guidance regarding the de-authorisation powers introduced in the (not yet imposed) Health...
Monitor issues new guidance on the private patient income cap
11/03/2010
Following a recent ruling of the High Court, Monitor has updated the NHS Foundation Trust Financial Reporting Manual and published...
Transforming Community Services
24/02/2010
The Department of Health have re-imposed a hard deadline of 31 March 2010 regarding the national standards for provider reform...
Health Alert: Language testing of doctors for inclusion on Performers...
15/02/2010
The Department of Health has issued interim guidance to PCTs in England on the language testing of overseas doctors. The guidance...
FT Terms of Authorisation (CCP)
08/06/2009
From 1 May 2009 Monitor will be amending the Standard Terms of Authorisation to include a new condition relating to compliance...
Strong reputation...He understands the market and the law