London
charlotte.harpin@brownejacobson.com
+44 (0)330 045 2405
Charlotte regularly advises on complex governance and public law issues in the health sector. She is nationally recognised for her expertise on CCG governance (in particular, CCG constitutional matters) and is advising on the development of a number of CCG mergers and integrated care system developments across England.
Charlotte is also sought-after for her advice on information law, particularly in relation to complex data sharing arrangements in the health sector. Clients praise her pragmatic approach and ability to distil complex concepts into plain English.
"Charlotte Harpin – absolute focus on getting the task done, brilliant at communicating complex concepts to lay people, creative yet safe solutions to governance challenges, including where there were differing views amongst stakeholders."
Catch up on our on-demand video at our ICS development webinar included an overview of new legislation in developing your ICS, as well as the key features for developing integrated care boards, place based arrangements and provider collaboratives.
As we look ahead to April 2022 and the anticipated establishment of statutory integrated care systems, clinical commissioning groups are starting to plan for what the transfer of their functions to the integrated care systems will mean and to develop a transition plan accordingly.
We talk about the key legal principles that apply when processing requests for access to confidential information and gave some practical tips on how to deal with issues that might arise when Trusts are dealing with complex information requests.
Everyone is focussed on the two proposals for the development of integrated care system (ICSs) in England. They suggest new legislation be enacted to create either a statutory committee to formalise ICSs as a legal entity or that ICSs be established as a new statutory corporate body and clinical commissioning groups (CCG) functions should be re-purposed so they form part of the new statutory body’s functions.
Catch up on our 'Statutory ICS’s? Planning for 2021' webinar. Chaired by Sir Neil McKay, this on-demand video will help you to ensure that you are facing 2021 with useful knowledge of the potential legislative change in ICS’s.
Watch our on-demand video, where we discuss the new Who Pays? Guidance, how it interacts with the Discharge to Assess community health centre (CHC) guidance and also the underlying legal principles for each.
This webinar addresses some of the legal issues the pandemic has presented for integrated commissioning, service reconfiguration, patient discharge, ICS and ICPS information sharing and hospital groups.
We recognise that COVID19 has presented a huge array of challenges to our healthcare clients. Therefore, we are hosting a webinar to address the legal and practical implications of the Coronavirus Act 2020 and the associated issues the pandemic has presented.
The Government announced in its Queen Speech its intention to bring forward measures to support and strengthen the NHS and that new laws will be taken forward to help implement the Long Term Plan.
