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Our healthcare solicitors can help you in three key ways.
With our years as a leader in the health and care sector and our cross-sector expertise, our healthcare lawyers cover everything from NHS workforce to the biggest transactions between the public and independent sectors.
High client satisfaction: 95% of our clients would recommend us to others.
Size: 200 lawyers including 26 partners work with 400+ clients.
Strong industry networks: we connect the sector from boards to wards.
Thought leaders and industry speakers: championing innovation and creating solutions.
Industry recognised/acknowledgement: multi award winning and top directories rankings.
Our health and care lawyers have a range of experience including:
We're hosting a series of roundtable events around the country focusing on how each of these gaps can be addressed to overcome the barriers to better health outcomes for women. Our findings are then turned into a series of reports that you can download.
Advising Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust on workforce issues.
Legal Advisors of the Year – Private.
Supporting Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on the development of the new Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital.
200+ lawyers work for our health and care clients, including specialists in aligned areas like life sciences, healthtech, IT, insurance and education.
Our health and care blog keeps our clients up to date with sector developments from policy to new case law.
Our unique online resource for health and care clients working in the public and independent sectors.
Our ICS Hub page includes a wide range of resources to help provide answers and guidance for a variety of legal issues specifically for professionals working at systems, place-based or neighbourhood levels.
Whether you're developing a new health tech product to sell to the NHS, or procuring tech from the NHS, this podcast will guide you through every step of the way.
Our team of legal experts are here to support you. Contact one of our lawyers today.
Our health and care lawyers support clients to overcome obstacles and challenges and achieve incredible results.
Examples from the past 12 months:
· Large scale capital schemes. Advising Cambridge University Hospitals on the development of the £300 million world class Cancer Research Hospital and the first Children’s Hospital for East of England
· NHS digital transformation with Electronic Patient Record projects and the intra-Trust EPR collaboration in the sector, such as Royal Papworth, Norfolk & Waveney, Salisbury, Swindon & Bath and Plymouth, and Torbay & South Devon
· Supply Chain Coordination Limited on its projects delivering of over £1 billion of supplies to NHS
· UK Health Security Agency as one of the Core Participants in the UK Covid-19 Inquiry
· ARCHIMED on the sale of Vita Health Group to Spire Healthcare Group for £74 million
· Sue Ryder on the sale of its neurological services in England to Brainkind (The Disabilities Trust)
· Four Seasons Health Care on Project Oak, the sale of a national portfolio of care homes to several different buyers
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We help both public and independent healthcare organisations, advising 500+ clients nationally, in every part of the sector – from NHS Trusts and Integrated Care Boards to national bodies and independent sector providers and investors covering mental health, technology, specialist education and care services, fertility services, care homes.
Our NHS healthcare lawyers understand the legal frameworks used by the NHS to deliver care and the partnership models adopted by NHS providers working with the independent sector. We have worked on many of the emerging collaboratives across the public-private sector.
We have one of the largest and most experienced health and care solicitors teams, with over four decades of experience. This means creative solutions and informed advice based on a vast body of sector experience.
Specialist teams include:
As advisors to the NHS and independent healthcare providers, we are:
• Associates of NHS Confederation
• Commercial associates of the Independent Healthcare Providers Network
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Mills & Reeve has been appointed to the following NHS legal service frameworks:
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