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I am a highly experienced health, social care and senior living lawyer, specialising in commercial, corporate and regulatory law. I am recommended by Legal 500 and ranked in Chambers and Partners.
I have extensive experience of advising operators, investors, funders, developers and providers in healthcare, social care, and the senior living sectors on a diverse range of commercial, corporate and regulatory transactional matters.
I regularly support organisations with 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 World Healthcare Journal, 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...
Vincent Buscemi has been supporting us since inception and has been invaluable since. He has supported us with legal work but also introductions and insights. He is constantly available and will always get personally involved and look at problems in depth when required.