NHS and Foundation Trusts

We have extensive experience advising NHS bodies including Foundation Trusts. Our advice covers a wide range of areas, including: mergers and joint ventures and other collaborations; commercial agreements; public procurement; property acquisitions and disposals, landlord and tenant advice, construction and planning matters; employment matters; immigration; data protection; and CQC regulation and other complex regulatory and compliance issues. We also support clients with dispute resolution and CQC and HSE investigations and inquests.

When advising our NHS clients, we draw on our experience advising businesses and their investors on collaboration with the public sector in the digital health and life sciences sector. We similarly can draw on our experience advising local authorities on the commissioning of various social care and other health related services.

We are known for providing a responsive service that takes into account the political sensitivities, financial constraints and regulatory controls that affect the day-to-day work of our NHS clients and which recognises the vulnerability of patients and other service users.

Our NHS experience

• Advising a public private partnership on pathology services contracts and governance. 
• Advising an NHS Trust in relation to the expansion of a Mental Health Unit at a large regional hospital to increase the inpatient bed capacity.
• Acting for an NHS Trust in relation to engaging Salary Finance Ltd to provide a platform for salary finance services for Trust employees.
• Advising and representing an NHS Trust in all Employment Tribunal cases involving complex issues such as discrimination and whistleblowing.
• Supporting operators of NHS and Local Authority commissioned services with CQC investigations into fatalities and serious incidents, alleged breaches of the Care Act, the Health and Safety at Work Act and Inquests.
• Acting for an NHS Trust in connection with the lease of a site including obsolete hospital buildings for conversion and redevelopment as a studio school offering 14 to 19 education specialising in a range of healthcare skills appropriate and relevant to the Trust.