Rhian Vandrill

Partner

What can I do for you

Rhian heads our commercial health practice and has extensive experience advising commissioners and both NHS and independent sector providers on all manner of corporate and commercial matters. She specialises in advising on the sector's most innovative and highest profile projects, involving complex service reconfiguration, transformational change, and working to deliver integrated models of health and care across systems.

Supporting your ambitions

This year, Rhian has been supporting providers and ICBs on place-based partnerships, provider collaboratives, lead provider models, and governance arrangements within a range of contractual, regulatory, and procurement work.

What do others say

“Rhian’s team worked with us to develop a legal agreement for NHS and independent sector provider organisations working together on a collaborative basis across a system. The work was extremely challenging and complex, with little precedent. We were very impressed with the manner in which Rhian and her team approached and facilitated the work, which ensured all organisations were on board and achieved consensus. They were highly professional, very personable, able to deliver the work in an easier to understand format, and importantly delivered within the timescales.” 

What else should you know

Rhian is an independent trustee of Your City & Metropolitan Hospitals charity, the independent registered charity of Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, incorporating the new ‘Midland Met’ hospital. She also leads our Emerging Talent programme for junior and aspiring lawyers based in our Birmingham office.

What our clients say about us

  • I think Mills & Reeve are a wonderful firm. The support they have provided to us in a really difficult area has been brilliant, collaborative and commercially minded. The team were absolutely wonderful and a joy to work with. Amazing advice and support and a real collaborative effort with us. I can't thank them enough for getting us through some really tough times and doing so with an amazing can-do attitude.
  • They are friendly, fast, always available and always on top of the game. I tend to judge my legal team against the other side's legal team and never doubt Mills & Reeve is the better of the two.
  • All interactions have been very clear. Responses to questions have always been very swift and unambiguous. Our company, and my family, have used various services in Mills & Reeve with the same level of satisfaction.
  • I value the fact that Mills & Reeve are recognised as a good place to work in the UK Best Companies survey. This aligns with the values of our business and means that Mills & Reeve can share what is required to achieve this status with our business.

As many clients will testify, too many lawyers deliver the required legal expertise but fail to deliver an outstanding client experience. Which is why we always listen to our clients and constantly ask ourselves what we can do to deliver the results you expect.

You expect a close and attentive working relationship, with a lawyer that is responsive and available when you need them. You also want clear, pragmatic and commercial advice tailored to your needs, and transparency and certainty on costs. We completely agree. That’s why every day, through our culture and approach we are committed to delivering the exceptional results and service our clients expect of us.

Related sectors and services

  • Health and care
  • Commercial
  • Commissioning, contracts and procurement
  • Governance and partnerships
  • Primary care
  • Private wealth