Neighbourhood Health

Neighbourhood health is reshaping care delivery, creating legal, regulatory and governance challenges, while opening opportunities for providers, partners and investors to develop and capitalise on integrated, community based preventative care models.

We support public and independent sector clients at all levels to plan, deliver and grow neighbourhood health models with confidence.

Our specialist legal team can help you deal with complexity, reduce risk and work more effectively with partners across the system making the move from hospital to community, treatment to prevention, and analogue to digital a reality.

We advise on the key legal foundations for neighbourhood working, including commissioning and contracts, funding and shared budgets, data sharing, digital systems, workforce arrangements, estates, governance, procurement and partnerships.

Our advice is commercially focused and draws on a wealth of experience in the sector.

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Our experience

Neighbourhood Health: Commissioning, providers & collaborations

Collaborations that work – a market leader in structuring provider collaboratives and partnership models to enable a “left shift” of care and funding.
Contracts & commissioning insight – a critical adviser on national contract developments and proposals affecting general practice and primary care.
Public / private delivery – a trusted partner to independent providers (in particular, hospitals and clinics) in expansion into private community care and their partnering with the NHS.

Neighbourhood Health: Digital & data

Digital delivery at scale – unrivalled experience with tech procurements and implementation, including over 40 large scale EPR programmes under the Frontline Digitisation Programme.
Data, AI & NHS integration – supported on information governance, hosting/assurance and contracting to deploy AI safely and integrate health tech into NHS pathways.
Championing women’s health & technology – thought leaders in the field of women’s health supporting suppliers and providers in the development and implementation of products.

Neighbourhood Health: Estates

Realising estates models – advising on complex LIFT and PFI arrangements for GP practices and system partners.
From funding to occupation – a key adviser to clients on development funding (including section106/CIL), multi tenant arrangements, finance and deal execution.

Meet our health and care lawyers

Our multidisciplinary team partner with providers at system, place and neighbourhood level to design and implement neighbourhood health operating models that realise shared visions and deliver measurable outcomes at scale.

Did you know?

Award-winning expertise

We were awarded the HealthInvestor Award 2025 for Legal Advisors of the Year – Private

Digital healthcare experience

We’ve helped NHS organisations buy and implement 40+ electronic patient record systems over the last 15 years

Neighbourhood Health support

From shaping responses to the Neighbourhood Health Framework to advising on neighbourhood contracts, delivery vehicles and estates, we support organisations across the neighbourhood health journey

Our clients

Our clients include Integrated Care Boards, NHS Trusts, Primary Care Networks and Federations, and Community Providers. We also support some of the largest providers in primary care and some of the most innovative med tech and digital companies operating in whole or part in this space including Siemens Healthcare, Preventx and iGPR.

What our clients say about us

The team demonstrates strong technical capability, particularly in navigating intersecting regulatory, commercial and governance issues that often arise in transactions.
Chambers & Partners
Healthcare: Public and Third Sector respondent UK
Mills & Reeve has extensive knowledge of the NHS and the complexities of the issues and situations which present themselves. Mills & Reeve provide a personalised service, taking time to get to know their clients and their business to understand pressures and challenges.
Legal 500
All team members have superb in-depth knowledge.
Chambers & Partners
Healthcare: Public and Third Sector respondent UK

Our expertise

CareTech

Commissioning, contracts and procurement

Employment - health and care

Governance in health and care
Health and care inquests
Health and care: M&A and other corporate transactions

Health and care real estate and capital projects

Health and care regulation

Health tech
Independent sector health and care
Mental capacity

Mental health

Neighbourhood Health

NHS digital transformation
Policy, public law and disputes
Primary care
Public inquiries and investigations
Social care
Women's health and technology (femtech)

Health and care blog

Our health and care blog keeps our clients up to date with sector developments from policy to new case law.

Health and care blog

Health and care hub

Our unique online resource for health and care clients working in the public and independent sectors.

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Talking digital health

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