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Getting your contracts right is essential, and contracting in the health and care sector is complex. You need an understanding of the full range of standard contracts and the limitations on their use. You also need to be aware of, not just the relevant legal requirements, but also national policy requirements. You therefore need lawyers with a combination of commercial and sector expertise. We regularly advise local and national health/care commissioners and providers (across the public and independent sectors) on major projects (including national / regional procurements), arrangements for non-clinical goods and services (including for specialist areas like telephony and IT) and a wide range of contracts for clinical health/care services. Our health/care contracting experience includes advising on one of the first uses of the emerging Accountable Care Organisation (ACO) (now Integrated Care Provider or ICP) contract, on the use of alliance and integration agreements, the NHS Standard Contracts (full-length and shorter-form), primary care contracts (especially primary medical and dental contracts: General Medical Services (GMS), Personal Medical Services (PMS), Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS), General Dental Services (GDS) and Personal Dental Services (PDS) contracts) and subcontracting arrangements. We also advise on contractual collaborations / joint ventures. Our commercial health lawyers work exclusively for the health and care sector, including working at the heart of emerging national policy, and we also have dedicated specialists in all other related areas you may need – for example, procurement, competition, IP, IT, tax, employment and real estate – and we combine our sector expertise with the strength in depth you would expect from a national commercial firm.
With the Care Quality Commission now considering consultation responses in respect of its long-term regulatory approach, life goes on under their Transitional Monitoring Approach.
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We set out and consider each legal proposal in the section on working together and supporting integration and innovation. The Government has put forward an additional series of targeted proposals to improve social care, public health, and quality and safety.
Comparative to how the business might approach other targets such an analysis might throw up, the route to contracting with the NHS is quite unique.
Despite the pressure and challenges facing the NHS and wider health and social care sector in tackling the Covid-19 second wave and winter pressures, the NHS remains committed to playing its part in tackling climate change.
They deliver practical solutions for our organisation with an individual personal service and I would recommend them highly to other healthcare organisations.
Market commentators highlight the firm for its "strong independent health practice."
Another market source says: "They are reliable and provide a good cost-effective service."
The healthcare sector is a notable area of strength of the firm.
See the new The Exercise of Commissioning Functions by the National Health Commissioning Board (Coronavirus) Directions 2020.
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As coronavirus (COVID-19) rapidly spreads throughout the world, the government has implemented The Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020. The Secretary of State now has the ability to declare COVID-19 a ‘serious and imminent threat to public health’, in which case drastic powers of detainment will be afforded to contain the virus.
We provide a package of services for supporting data protection managers. Our DPA breach support services minimise the risk of a data protection breach.
The helpline is staffed by qualified employment solicitors, giving you access to sensible and practical advice.
Even many years after the implementation of the Mental Capacity Act, there is still a long way to go to get it fully embedded in health and social care practice.
In partnership with Nottingham CityCare, we have developed a fixed price end-to-end solution to handle the processing of retrospective Continuing Healthcare claims.
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