Online retailer CurrentBody, a specialist seller of home-use beauty devices, has secured £10 million in funding after independent investment body BGF joined NVM Private Equity in backing the business.
The article was authored by corporate partner Michael Corcoran and health partner James Lawford Davies, in Hill Dickinson's life sciences team. This article was first published on the Master Investor
Hill Dickinson’s leading national health team continues to grow as new partner Rebecca Hunt joins the firm’s 200-strong health sector practice. Rebecca joins the health litigation team in London where she acts on behalf of NHS organisations in the defence of clinical negligence claims and leads a team of lawyers acting on behalf of NHS Resolution and private insurers.
Hill Dickinson is pleased to confirm that it advised high-profile medical cannabis client EMMAC Life Sciences Limited (EMMAC), a leading independent cannabis company in Europe, on its recent issue of convertible loan notes to raise £15 million (the CLN Issue). The CLN Issue saw funds coming from a range of new and existing private and institutional investors based in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia.
Following a public consultation process, NHS England (NHSE) and NHS Improvement (NHSI) released their proposal document ‘The NHS’s recommendations to government and parliament for an NHS bill’ in September 2019. These wide-ranging recommendations for new legislation aim to improve the speed of implementation of the NHS Long Term Plan (the Long Term Plan) and take into account the report and recommendations of the parallel inquiry by the Health and Social Care Select Committee undertaken during 2019. Recommendations include provisions to enact a new more flexible NHS procurement regime for healthcare services.
The Court of Appeal has held that allegations of misconduct against a doctor, including rudeness and insubordination, were correctly categorised by the NHS Foundation Trust employer as ‘misconduct’, rather than ‘professional misconduct’. This meant that the disciplinary panel did not have to include an independent medically qualified person under the Maintaining High Professional Standards in the Modern NHS (MHPS) procedures. The disciplinary panel had been correctly constituted, and the Court upheld the employment tribunal’s decision that the doctor had been fairly dismissed.
Following a public consultation process commencing in February 2019, NHS England (NHSE) and NHS Improvement (NHSI) have released their proposal document ‘The NHS’s recommendations to Government and Parliament for an NHS Bill’. These recommendations for new legislation aim to improve the speed of implementation of the NHS Long Term Plan (the Long Term Plan) and take into account the report and recommendations of the parallel inquiry by the Health and Social Care Select Committee undertaken during 2019.
ECH Limited launched nearly two years ago with a mission to make cannabis more accessible and acceptable. Over this period, its portfolio companies and investments have achieved a number of successes including establishing a data and research company with global coverage of the sector, a chain of medical cannabis clinics in the UK, educating medical professionals in 18 countries around the world, welcoming over 3000 global leaders to London for the inaugural European Cannabis Week and facilitating the first bulk import of medical cannabis in the UK via Astral Health.
NHS Resolution has released a report on the first year of their innovative Early Notification Scheme for potential birth brain injuries. View the report.
This article was authored by senior associate Kate Shute in Hill Dickinson’s health employment team. The article first appeared in HPMA’s (The Healthcare People Management Association) August 2019 newsletter.
