Instant In-house for health and care

Our ‘Instant In-house for Health and Care’ service delivers bespoke legal expertise across England and Wales to NHS Trusts, local authorities, Integrated Care Boards, Health Boards, independent health and care providers, indemnifiers and insurers - on demand, flexible and tailored to your needs.

Ready when you are, our team of specialist lawyers will integrate seamlessly with your in-house legal team, getting up to speed with your organisation’s needs and delivering a breadth of expertise, greater flexibility and certainty of legal spend.

From clinical negligence and personal injury claims to Coroner’s inquests, employment, regulatory and public law - our full-service firm has you covered. You get specialist legal knowledge backed by genuine health and care expertise. Choose dedicated support at any level - paralegal to partner - to keep your legal function running smoothly.

Our Instant In-house for health and care lawyers

Assistant Director, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust Steve Murray

“All of the staff who were seconded to us during this period from your firm have been a credit both to your firm and to the profession …”

What is Instant In-house for health and care?

Instant in-house for health and care is a flexible model, tailored to meet your current requirements and designed to seamlessly support your team.

We provide a straightforward package based on what you need, not what you don’t.

As well as traditional secondment support, providing you with a named secondee to work with you, at your office or remotely, we can provide access to a team of dedicated lawyers fully set up to work remotely and become a virtual extension of your existing in-house team.

How does Instant In house for health and care work?

We gain an understanding of your requirements.

We will contact you for a brief consultation over the phone, free of charge, providing us with an opportunity to better understand your needs.

Once we understand your bespoke retainer package requirements, we will provide you with a proposal setting out our suggested scope of work, lawyer(s)/paralegal(s) who you will be working with and a pricing model which is straightforward and represents excellent value.

We get to work on the agreed start date. From that point on, you and your wider team will be able to call upon our services, treating us as an extension of your in-house team.

What services can we offer in Instant In-house for health and care?

We can offer a whole array of different levels and options of support, which can include:

Managing a caseload of Coroner’s inquests including providing advocacy at court.
Managing a caseload of Court of Protection matters.
Managing a caseload of clinical negligence and PI claims.
Liaising with NHSR and other indemnifiers.
Providing advice on:
- Regulatory matters.
- SARs.
- Data and public law matters.
An Out of Hours helpline to provide 24 hour legal advice and support.

Our services can be provided remotely, on site or a combination of the two. We can offer support from paralegal or more experienced lawyers. Your carefully scoped, Instant In-house package will be tailored to the needs of your organisation. Whether you need day-to-day caseload management or a Head of Legal to drive your entire operation, we're ready to support you with a package that is tailored to deliver what your organisation needs for as long as you need it.

Lawyer at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Soraya Boloorsaz-Mashadi

[your secondee] “is fabulous and has been a godsend for us … It is a shame we can't keep her on!”

Head of Corporate Governance, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Tracey Wright

“… has been like a breath of fresh air, she is so positive and is clearly committed to supporting and working with the team to cover this service. The staff in the team speak so highly of her and her work ethic … I have found her ‘can do’ attitude a godsend.”

Assistant Director, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust Steve Murray

“All of the staff who were seconded to us during this period from your firm have been a credit both to your firm and to the profession …”

Head of Legal Services, formerly of Wrightington Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

“… an excellent secondment service … specifically tailored to suit our needs. We have been very impressed by the calibre of secondee and the back up support which includes easy access to the wider Browne Jacobson team, active supervision and frequent check-in meetings with the secondee and Trust to monitor progress.”

Acute NHS trust

An experienced partner was seconded as Head of Legal Services to lead the in-house legal team, with paralegal support and an experienced inquest advocate seconded to the Trust to manage a caseload of complex inquests up to and including the advocacy in court.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton

An experienced partner was seconded as Head of Legal Services to lead the in-house legal team and act as the key legal adviser to the Trust Board, responsible for delivery of legal services across all five Trust sites.