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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has enormous potential to transform healthcare but is uncertainty around applicable regulatory frameworks hampering technological advances and creating a lack of trust?

With no unified consent policy in existence for the health and social care sectors, the National Consent Advisory Group ("NCAG") was established to draft a policy framework to cover all aspects of consent.

Can a healthcare professional restrain a resident where there is a concern that his or her behaviour poses a risk to themselves or others?

The new EU Medical Device Regulations, which are due to be voted on by the European Parliament, will result in increased post market surveillance and vigilance requirements for medical device manufacturers.

This week's package of health sector-focused measures from the European Commission contains a number of flagship deliverables under the July 2025 EU Life Sciences Strategy...

On the 21st October last, the Government published an updated Work Safety Protocol ("the updated Protocol"). This is the fourth revision since the Protocol was first published in 2020.

The Health Products Regulatory Authority (the "HPRA") has established a new compliance programme in relation to Advisory Board meetings. This programme is effective from 1 January 2021 ...

At a recent William Fry CounselConnect virtual Conference, over 170 in-house legal counsel from across Ireland heard Antoinette Moriarty...

The Report on the Interdepartmental Working Group on the Rising Cost of Health-Related claims was published by the Minister for Health on 19th September 2024. The Group was chaired independently...

RDJ's Healthcare Department were involved in successfully resisting an appeal where the Court of Appeal has upheld a modular trial Order confirming strategic case management...

As reported by journalist Amelia Heathman in the Evening Standard recently, anxiety is a growing issue in the UK. According to AnxietyUK, one in six adults experience some form of "neurotic health problem"

In the final briefing of our Get Ready for Go-Live series, we focus on compliance with the new Clinical Trial Regulation, including serious breaches of the Regulation and Good Clinical Practice inspections.

On 25 January 2021, the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association (IPHA) released the latest edition of its Self-Care Advertising Code (Code), formerly the Code of Standards of...

Initiated against the backdrop of the well-documented PIP breast implant issues, the new Regulations have been the subject of rigorous scrutiny and comment for the past four years.

Less than a year before the transposition of the revised Product Lability Directive1, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) has provided some welcome clarification on the application of the limitation periods...

The Data Protection Act 2018 (Access Modification) (Health) Regulations 2022 (2022 Regulations) commenced on Tuesday, 8 March 2022. The 2022 Regulations revoke and replace the Data Protection...

May 2011 saw the introduction of a statutory requirement for medical practitioners to commit to a formal process of professional development, including the completion of 50 hours of continuing professional development per year.