Healthcare advisory
Weightmans specialist Healthcare Advisory team has extensive
experience in providing advice and support to all levels of the NHS
- providers and commissioners - including NHS Foundation Trusts
(acute and mental health providers) as wells as PCTs.
In addition to this, the team advises a number
of other specialist NHS bodies and Regulators giving them a 360
degree view of the complex environment in which NHS and public
sector bodies operate.
Our lawyers are recognised leaders in their
field and regularly advise on a wide range of healthcare law issues
including statutory obligations, functions and powers of NHS bodies
as well as Governance and Risk Management. They also have
extensive experience of advising and representing the NHS at
inquests and advising on ethical issues including consent and
confidentiality.
The team operates on a 24/7 basis so that clients can access
legal advise when it is needed. They provide a supportive,
proactive service based on a deep understanding of the NHS and
wider public sector whilst adding a commercial perspective to
advice given through the firm’s larger national practice. The
team also provides support across a comprehensive range of issues
including applications for Foundation Trust status, the Transfer of
Community Services, challenges by way of judicial review, Board
governance and representation at public or other serious incident
inquiries.
To view the Health and Social Care Training Programme, click here.
To download a copy of the NHS legal awareness and training
programme, click here.
"This team of "on-the-ball, thorough and meticulous"
lawyers does impressive work for the NHSLA. It acts on a
wide array of claims and has been in the thick of current
debates over the future of clinical negligence funding."
Chambers and Partners 2011
