Your challenges
Life in the NHS never stands still and sometimes there seems to be no end to the many and varied situations that can arise. Patients are with you 24/7 and present a cornucopia of interesting issues that you have to tackle. Often they are sensitive, time critical, challenging (both ethically and clinically) as well as newsworthy. You need lawyers who can help you however novel, urgent or unusual your questions may be.
Achieving your ambitions
Whatever your queries are, we will have someone with the expertise to work with you to reach a sensible practical and cost effective solution. For example, NHS bodies have to manage a huge range of ethical issues, including consent, refusal or cessation of treatment, reproductive and genetic policies and organs and transplantation. We can support you with swift, informed guidance to enable you to make the right judgements in high pressure situations.
Please see our other web pages on topics such as children consent, confidentiality, best interests, judicial reviews, inquests, mental health, continuing healthcare, incidents and investigations, health and safety, list management and priorities.
The strength you need
We have three partners and over 25 healthcare lawyers ready and able to assist you in our offices in Birmingham, Cambridge, London and Norwich.
We have lawyers who have worked in NHS trusts in the past, who work there on secondments now, who have worked at Cafcass or have previously undertaken clinical negligence, employer's liability and public liability work on behalf of the NHSLA.
We act for over 100 NHS bodies including acute trusts, mental health trusts, foundation trusts and primary care trusts.
Together, we can work on anything from drafting preliminary assessments for initial claim reporting to risk management issues. We can also help with managing patient complaints, dealing with media enquiries and any other patient related issues.
Lawyers you can trust
We are highly rated in the Legal 500 for our work in the healthcare sector. Our team is regarded as being “a valuable and effective partner” with a “very good understanding of the business context”.
Legal 500 2009 said: "Jill Mason's team is the top choice for health: whatever you need, they will be able to help."
Legal 500 2010 said: "the response times are remarkable and the acumen and knowledge excellent."