Bio

Ben joined Hill Dickinson from 1 May 2020, with more than 20 years' experience dealing with all aspects of legal and ethical issues relating to health and social care. Ben specialises in mental capacity and general health and care law advice and has been recognised in Chambers as one of the country’s leading Court of Protection practitioners every year since 2013, as well as a leading national speaker on MCA / deprivation of liberty in particular. He often deals with emergency and out of hours advice on medical treatment, and urgent applications to Court. Ben is a qualified mediator and is a member of the Law Society’s Mental Health and Disability committee, as well as the Law and Ethics Policy Unit of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, with the experience of a decade on the clinical ethics committee of a large acute NHS trust. Ben has a particular interest in the overlap and friction between health care and social care and he has advised on disputes about access to and funding of care involving local authorities and various NHS bodies, and care providers as well as continuing healthcare, individual funding requests, and delayed / refusal of discharge. He also has a focus on the law and ethics around digital health and care and health tech. Ben's ''A Practical Guide to the Law of Medical Treatment Decisions'' was published by Law Brief Publishing in September 2020. http://www.lawbriefpublishing.com/product/medicaltreatmentdecisions/ and he is currently working on - the difficult second album - a book about the Liberty Protection Safeguards, the imminent reform of the law on deprivation of liberty.