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Governance and Compliance in Healthcare

In the health and social care sector organisations are constantly under pressure to meet the expectations of government, regulatory bodies, commissioners, investors, service users, and other stakeholders. Transparency and accountability are critical to ensuring that you meet these expectations, despite economic pressures. Good governance is an enabler within any business but is also crucial for success and ensuring compliance in the health and social care sector.

Overview

Working within our leading health and social care team our governance experts specialise in helping health and social care organisations implement effective governance practices.

We understand the unique challenges and complexities of this sector and can work with you to ensure that good governance is at the core of your organisation. Effective governance acts as an enabler to your sector business, and also delivers improvements in safety and performance, demonstrates accountability and leadership within a highly regulated environment, and meets the ever-increasing demands of your stakeholders.

Our specialist governance work encompasses both corporate and clinical governance in sector context. This includes a wide range of governance solutions such as evaluations of board and committee effectiveness, the design and implementation of governance models, advice on corporate structures, due diligence analysis within transactions, board development sessions on good governance and achieving assurance, in addition to reactive advice on investigations and in response to regulatory interventions.

We also provide training and mentoring for boards and their members, best practice advice on reporting and constitutional documentation, and company secretarial support. Additionally, we offer guidance on public and private sector integrated delivery, as well as advice on subsidiary governance, accountability and reporting arrangements.

Our clinical governance advice is delivered with deep knowledge and experience of the sector, ensuring sector best practice works hand in hand with regulatory requirements, quality and safety drivers, a learning culture with accountability, and the bespoke needs of your particular health and social care business, irrespective of scale and complexity.

Most importantly, by working with us you benefit from our board-level experience, bespoke approach, and legally sound, practical solutions. We offer complete discretion, detailed proposals and market-leading expertise you can trust.

Featured experience

  • Advising on response to a statutory inquiry against a charity for serious safeguarding and governance failures, which included a review of policies and procedures (and recommendations for updating the same) and interviewing board members to enable a plan for improvement to be put into place. The inquiry was successfully closed.
  • Conducting a wholesale governance review for an NHS organisation including interviews and a full desktop review, as well as providing an assurance audit 6 months after the initial review. The review included an extensive review of terms of reference, risk registers and assurance frameworks and audit reports, alongside general corporate and clinical governance concerns.
  • Working with clients to design and implement a group wide clinical governance framework across a national and international provider group
  • Delivering training to healthcare organisations on boardroom behaviour and challenge techniques, general duties and specific regulatory duties, including well led support

What our clients say

  • ”

    Formidable knowledge of the healthcare and government sectors. Well versed in public law and inquiries. Very enjoyable to work with.

    Legal 500, 2023 Edition, Administrative and public law, UK Wide

  • ”

    They have a good ability to field subject matter experts on every matter which may arise. They are extremely responsive and good at managing expectations realistically.

    Chambers & Partners 2023, Administrative and Public Law, UK wide

  • ”

    DAC Beachcroft are able to provide clear and strong advice on complex governance issues.

    Chambers & Partners 2023, Administrative and Public Law, UK wide

Governance and Compliance in Healthcare key contacts

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Corinne Slingo

Partner

Bristol

Corinne Slingo

Partner

Bristol

+44 (0)117 918 2152

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Anne-Marie Gregory

Legal Director

Bristol

Anne-Marie Gregory

Legal Director

Bristol

+44 (0) 117 918 2324

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Bridget Salaman

LLP Group Secretary

Manchester

Bridget Salaman

LLP Group Secretary

Manchester

+44 (0)161 934 3272

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¿Por qué elegir DAC Beachcroft?

Somos un bufete comercial de amplia base que presta servicios a una gran variedad de sectores, con una sólida herencia en seguros,
salud e inmobiliario. Combinamos excelentes conocimientos jurídicos y experiencia de vanguardia para diseñar soluciones en
que se adapten a las necesidades de nuestros clientes, a menudo con un uso inteligente de la tecnología.

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