The Health & Social Care sector faces growing and changing challenges. Chief among these would be:

• New regulations
• Health and Safety requirements
• Demographic changes
• Financial demands
• Property issues
• Employment issues

This is why using a law firm that really understands the sector is so important.

Our corporate and property teams' expertise in the healthcare sector means that we act for a range of businesses including a number of high profile healthcare businesses, as well as newer entrants to the sector, along with GP partnerships, dental practices, pharmacists and veterinary surgeons.

Some of our Health & Social Care transactions are listed below:

Main Services:

Care Homes and Domiciliary Care:

• Business acquisitions and disposals
• Shareholders’ and investors’ agreements
• Property/Land acquisition and disposal

Public Sector:

• Advice to health trusts on property transactions involving hospitals and doctors surgeries
• Advice on public sector contracts
• Regulatory advice

Doctors:

• Advice on GP consortiums for private tenders
• Medical partnership agreements
• Medical property partnership agreements dealing with surgery premises ownership
• Surgery Sale and Leaseback arrangements
• Partnership disputes/dissolutions/retirements

Dentists:

• Dentist expense sharing agreements and associate agreements
• Dental practice acquisitions and disposals

Vets:

• Partnership and shareholders’ agreements
• Veterinary practice acquisitions and disposals

Click here to go to our separate Private Finance Initiatives and Public Private Partnerships page.

Our Specialists:

Philip George
Philip is a Consultant Solicitor and specialises in Private Finance Initiative and Private Public Partnership projects and the Legal 500 directory described him as "The 'very astute' Philip George…the firm's lead PFI lawyer."

David Wisbey
David is Chairman at Birkett Long. Continuing with his city type work, David has advised Partnership Health Group on projects for the construction and operation of treatment centres. He advises clients locally, nationally and internationally in transactions worth millions of pounds.

Tracey Dickens
Tracey heads the Commercial and Corporate Finance team, which the Legal 500 Directory has described as a "'very knowledgeable' team…acting predominantly for health care clients."

Tracey has particular expertise in dealing with medical professionals offering specialist advice in relation to partnership agreements and disputes. Tracey also deals with buying and selling businesses and in particular acts for a number of acquisitive clients in relation to domiciliary care and care home business purchases, of particular note is Care UK Homecare Limited part of the Care UK Plc group.

Tim Ogle
Tim is Head of the Employment and Immigration team, which the Legal 500 describes as "excellent" (2010 edition). Tim has extensive experience of advising health and social care clients on all the many and varied aspects of their sector, particularly on acquisition.