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Legal services for Doctors

Medical practitioners require specialist advice in connection with their partnerships and practice arrangements as these are governed by the NHS regulatory and primary care frameworks.

Our experts regularly advise and assist GP practices throughout Essex, Suffolk, Outer London and beyond. Birkett Long’s Heath and Social Care team has the expertise and experience to guide you through the legal minefield.

Our services

Partnerships

  • Partnership Agreements
  • GMS and PMS partnership agreements
  • Supplemental agreements for incoming partners
  • Retirement agreements for outgoing partners
  • Dissolution/Settlement agreements
  • Deeds of variation
  • Salaried partnership agreements
  • 24 hour retirement
  • Advice on liability between partners
  • Buying and selling private practices
  • Practice mergers
  • Contractual advice – GMS and PMS contract advice
  • Regulatory advice & challenging CCG or formerly PCT actions
  • Negotiating settlements in partnership disputes and dissolution

Property

  • Surgery premises
  • Acquisition of freehold and leasehold premises
  • Leases by property owning doctors to their practices
  • Sales and leasebacks
  • Changes of property owning partners
  • New surgery developments
  • Property Partnership Agreements - dealing with surgery premises ownership between the property owning partners

Consortiums and collaborations

  • Working at scale collaborations (advice on legal entities, companies and LLPs)
  • Advice on GP consortiums for private tenders
  • Co-operation agreements between practices