Birkett Long’s specialist health and social care solicitors understand that the legislative and regulatory environment is complex, with a continued shift towards greater public scrutiny.

Our health and social care solicitors are at the forefront, our comprehensive understanding of the key issues for the health sector means that we can quickly provide you with concise and relevant advice whatever your business within healthcare.

Working in the health and social care 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. Birkett Long also specialises in working with GP partnerships, dental practices, pharmacists and veterinary surgeons.

While we offer the full range of legal services relating to businesses, specifically to the health and social care sector our main services include:

• 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:
  • Medical partnership agreements including 24 hour retirement agreements
  • Medical property partnership agreements dealing with surgery premises ownership
  • Surgery sale and leaseback arrangements
  • Partnership disputes/dissolutions/retirements
  • Advice on GP consortiums for private tenders
  • Regulatory issues and challenging CCG actions
• Dentists:
  • Dentist expense sharing agreements and associate agreements
  • Dental practice acquisitions and disposals
• Pharmacies:
  • Business acquisitions and disposals
  • Shareholders' and investors' agreements
  • Property/Land acquisition and disposal including lease negotiations
• Vets:
  • Partnership and shareholders’ agreements
  • Veterinary practice acquisitions and disposals

Our health and social care solicitors are available to clients throughout Basildon, Colchester and Chelmsford. For a short, no obligation chat on the phone about Birkett Long’s work in the health and social care sector, call Tracey Dickens, our health and social care solicitor, on 01206 217326.