Hill Dickinson is pleased to support the implementation of new guidance Learning from Litigation Claims, produced by Getting It Right First Time programme (GIRFT) and NHS Resolution, to help NHS trusts improve patient safety.
Welcome to the Spring 2021 edition of our Life Sciences Quarterly newsletter. This latest edition includes a mix of thought-provoking articles, interviews across a wide range of life sciences and closely related topics, reflecting the work and experience of our Life Sciences team. We hope you enjoy it.
Hill Dickinson client The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) is a leading independent technology innovation centre and a founding member of the UK government’s High Value Manufacturing Catapult.
Hill Dickinson has been reappointed to NHS North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative (NOE CPC) Legal Services Framework. The contract commenced on 1 April 2021.
Hill Dickinson is pleased to have advised EMMAC Life Sciences Limited, Europe’s largest independent vertically integrated medical cannabis company, on the terms of the offer by CuraLeaf Holdings, Inc to EMMAC shareholders to acquire the entire issued share capital of the company.
Amid the current flurry of health sector reform activity, NHS England/Improvement has released its consultation on a proposed new healthcare services procurement regime. The proposals, aimed at ensuring that competitive tendering of healthcare services is a choice, rather than mandated, and removing any procurement related barriers to enabling greater integration and collaboration, represent a radical shift away from the more prescribed current regime. However whether these aims are achieved will likely depend on the ‘on the ground impact’ in terms of behaviours that the new regime promotes or prevents. A key part of that picture will be formed by the way that the wider integration focused reforms wrap around and interact with these proposals to drive the most advantageous behaviours.
While acknowledging that most service reconfigurations work well, the paper highlights that complex or controversial proposals can lead to difficult, even intractable, debates and processes that stret
Hill Dickinson's Corporate M&A team advises UK and international companies, management teams and entrepreneurs on the entire range of UK and cross-border acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures and complex reorganisations and restructurings.
Leading commercial law firm Hill Dickinson has reported on the successful completion of corporate transactions in 2020 with an aggregate transaction value worth over £2.6 billion.
On the 15 December 2020, the Cabinet Office published its long-awaited Green Paper setting out its proposed radical reforms to be made to the public procurement regime, which currently applies in Engl
