Clare Auty
Partner
Birmingham
clare.auty@brownejacobson.com
+44 (0)121 237 3943
Clare is the national lead of the independent health and social care practice, head of the commercial health team and on the Board of the firm. She is a proven corporate/commercial solicitor and executive with over 15 years’ in-house experience managing legal functions at board level.
Her experience includes being GC for St Andrew’s Healthcare, Director of a private acute JV, Director of an imaging provider, Head of Legal EMEA at Molson Coors and GC for a listed software provider in both the retail and health sectors. Clare was often the sponsor for major change projects and understands the numerous challenges faced by providers of health and social care. Prior to joining Browne Jacobson, Clare was the independent sector representative for the Staff Passport Group working with NHS providers, the government and unions.
Clare has a breadth of legal knowledge including core commercial and corporate law to employment, risk and governance. She has had executive responsibility for other functions including HR, IT, H&S, risk management and internal audit.
Clare’s clients include Nuffield, HCA, Circle BMI, Vision Express, Care Fertility, NHSEI, Towerview Healthcare Group, Autograph Care Group, Alliance Medical, Sygnature Discovery, St Andrew’s Healthcare, Keys, Hesley and Bionical to name just a few.
You may be interested in...
Opinion
NHS England – Updated Transaction Guidance
NHS England has published (October 2022) new guidance - Assuring and supporting complex change: Statutory transactions, including mergers and acquisitions.
Opinion
NHS England – Assuring and supporting complex change
NHS England has issued an updated (publication 11 October 2022) suite of Complex Change guidance about how it will assure and support proposals for complex change that are reportable to it. New and (where it is still in force) existing Complex Change guidance are as follows.
Guide
Highlights from the Health and Care Connect Conference
On-Demand
Future of Care for elderly care
Join Browne Jacobson and our guest speakers for this on-demand webinar which looks into the Future of Care.
Press Release
Corporate lawyer joins specialist independent health team
Browne Jacobson has strengthened its independent health & social care team with the addition of corporate finance lawyer Vicky Tomlinson.
On-Demand
Commissioning Health Tech in an ICS World
We invite you to watch our on-demand webinar which looks into how healthtech is commissioned from a health and tech perspective.
Training
Care Business Briefing - Future of Care Special
Catch up on our on-demand video where our Health specialists talked about the Future of Care with discussions about social care in an ICS world, the future of mental health and learning disability and retirement living.
Training
Implementing your digital health strategy in the health sector
Whilst the roles technology can play in supporting the delivery of healthcare services are many and varied, there are challenges to our effective implementation and use of it. Catch up on our 2020 Health Tech webinar where we look at the legal issues associated with four of the key live Health Tech initiatives.
Training
Care business briefing acquisitions and funding
Browne Jacobson, Clydesdale Bank/Virgin Money and Hazelwoods Healthcare specialists discuss their thoughts on the outlook for acquisition activity and funding in the health and care sectors.Training
Health and care transactions - the outlook
Browne Jacobson, Clydesdale Yorkshire Bank, Connell Consulting and Christie & Co looks at the outlook for health and social care transactions.
Training
Care business briefing
Browne Jacobson, BKR Care Consultancy & HSBC UK are pleased to invite you to our webinar looking at the regulatory aspects of care, with an update from a Regulatory barrister as well as a Q&A with a panel of experts.
Legal Update
The Medical Practitioners Assurance Framework: key changes for private providers
The publication of the Medical Practitioners Assurance Framework (“the MPAF”), introduces a strengthened clinical governance framework and a more standardised approach to practising privileges.