One of the top healthcare law firms, Womble Bond Dickinson is proud to offer our professional legal services within the highly complex and regulated healthcare industry.
Operating both within the UK and internationally, the team of lawyers that make up our specialised healthcare law firm offer advice, strategy and representation to a broad range of public and private clients including major health and social care providers, financial institutions and other key stakeholders.
In order to deliver expert services to all of our clients operating within this challenging sector, our healthcare law firm has offices throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, giving us the unique opportunity to develop in-depth local experience in both UK and US healthcare systems. This localised expertise, in turn, allows our Womble Bond Dickinson healthcare law firm to tailor legal services specifically towards the location-specific needs of each client in order to better support their endeavours.
Healthcare solicitors with international capabilities
One of the best healthcare law firms within the UK, with offices based throughout England and Scotland, our lawyers understand the financial and regulatory pressures being placed on health and social care providers in the UK’s ever-changing Healthcare sector. We fully understand that the overriding priority of our clients is to deliver the best care possible and work tirelessly towards ensuring that goal is met, providing high-quality advice to private health and social care providers, NHS Trusts, CCGs and other NHS organisations, such as NHS Digital.
From our bases in the United States, the Womble Bond Dickinson healthcare solicitors team continues in this work, providing up-to-date industry knowledge and guidance to healthcare providers, and their vendors. So different from it’s UK counterpart, the complex and highly regulated US healthcare market is rapidly evolving and, in order to help our clients realise their critical, business, and professional goals, we have formed a multidisciplinary and full-service team with a breadth of skills and in-depth regulatory, corporate transactional and litigation experience.
Healthcare law firm services
Across both national and international jurisdictions, our healthcare solicitors advise all stakeholders on the full spectrum of corporate transactions, all the way from corporate M&A to distressed and insolvent care providers. Our services are thorough, intelligently designed and meet the specific demands of both our clients and the wider healthcare sector.
Overlaying this corporate work, we also have lawyers who advise in regulatory and compliance matters, employment and compensation issues and a variety of property and construction matters.
Are you searching for a law firm specialising in healthcare to support your business goals? At Womble Bond Dickinson, our healthcare solicitors are well versed in both national and international healthcare law and can aid you with all legal matters within this ever-changing sector. Browse through our dedicated healthcare lawyers and professional staff or contact us through our get in touch page to set up an appointment to discuss your specific needs.
In the UK, as well as covering all aspects of corporate transactional work for private health and social care providers, our team also advises the full range of NHS bodies from national bodies such as NHS Digital to NHS Trusts, CCGs, GP practices and private sector suppliers across a range of areas including:
Judicial review, public law, governance, and regulatory issues
Complex privacy, data sharing, and information governance issues
On all aspects relating to the provision of mental healthcare services
Advising on regulatory enforcement action – advising clients in respect of investigations by UK regulators, including the Health & Safety Executive and Care Quality Commission, representation at interviews under caution and prosecutions of NHS Trusts and Private Healthcare providers.
In the US, our team serves on the front lines with clients, advising and providing guidance on the ever-evolving regulatory and business issues that are unique to healthcare. We offer wide-ranging corporate, anti-trust, and litigation services in the following areas:
Appropriate structuring of transactions in consideration of regulatory and US reimbursement issues
Antitrust considerations, including representation in federal and state investigations
Financing transactions and negotiating tax concessions and other economic development incentives
Federal and state regulatory compliance
Third-party and government audits and reimbursement matters
Health information privacy and data security compliance
Tax and tax exemption issues
Healthcare fraud litigation, including representation of clients involved in federal and state investigations, and US False Claims Act and qui tam litigation
Product liability and professional liability
Early stage planning relating to the clinical and financial integration of an organization.
Proactive healthcare auditing and consulting services are offered through Medical and Scientific Solutions, one of our ancillary business offerings. The Medical and Scientific Solutions team includes certified, experienced coders, auditors, nurses and physicians who have real-world experience applying and analyzing medical coding and documentation.
Overview
Overview
The healthcare industry is both highly complex and regulated – a potentially tricky combination requiring specialist knowledge and in-depth local expertise. But as one of the top healthcare law firms, we’ve got this down to a fine art.
So, whether you’re a health and social care provider in the UK, or part of the highly regulated US healthcare market, our incredibly experienced and multidisciplinary team provide the kind of full-service bespoke legal solutions that are just what the doctor ordered.
Your priority is delivering the best possible care and working tirelessly to meet that goal. You need a legal team who understand the healthcare system you’re operating in, and the financial and regulatory pressures that accompany it. With experience in the UK and internationally, alongside a breadth of skills and regulatory, corporate transactional, and litigation experience, we’ll provide the advice you need to realise your most pressing business critical and professional goals.
Your team
Your healthcare team
If you’re looking for a team of specialised healthcare lawyers, you’re in luck. We offer advice, strategy, and representation to a broad range of public and private clients, including major health and social care providers, financial institutions, and other key stakeholders. Our services are reassuringly thorough and intelligently designed so you don’t have to second guess what we’re doing.
It’s a challenging sector - we make no bones about it - but with offices throughout the UK and US, we’ve had a unique opportunity to develop local experience of both healthcare systems. This localised expertise is our secret sauce – it’s what helps us deliver the results you need, ensuring you have the detail necessary to navigate the rapidly evolving healthcare markets.
In the UK we work with private health and social care providers, NHS Trusts, CCGs, and other NHS organisations such as NHS Digital. In the US, it’s healthcare providers and their vendors who rely on our up-to-date industry knowledge and guidance.
You don’t need things to be complicated, so tell us what’s on your mind and we’ll handpick the right person (or team) for the job. We offer a wide range of corporate, anti-trust, and litigation services. Our expertise in this area includes corporate transactions - from M&A to distressed and insolvent care providers, regulatory and compliance matters, employment and compensation issues, and a variety of property and construction matters.
In need of an healthcare lawyer? Look no further.
At Womble Bond Dickinson we have an exceptional team of talented lawyers and business professionals who can offer guidance and find the solutions right for your business. We have both broad and niche expertise across all our UK and US offices.
Advising a mental health NHS Trust on over 10 inquests
Advising the board of a national chain of elderly and specialist care homes on the group's turnaround strategy and its negotiations with four different secured lenders totalling c£60m of debt
Acting in connection with a prosecution by the Health and Safety Executive of an NHS Trust (and associated Inquest) following an investigation into the death of a patient as a result of a wrong drug/wrong route error, compounded by drug storage and administration deficiencies
Acting for a UK care provider in connection with a number of serious fatal incidents, giving rise to investigations by the Care Quality Commission and local authority Safeguarding Teams
Advising NHS Trusts in connection with the transfer of services and staff to subsidiary companies operating as independent commercial ventures
Successfully represented employers operating in the healthcare sector in defending Employment Tribunal claims involving complex discrimination issues, alleged protected disclosures, and Human Rights Act concerns.
US
Representing large hospital systems in obtaining antitrust clearance in mergers and sales in North Carolina, Georgia, Indiana, Texas, and throughout the United States
Representing one of the first accountable care organisations approved by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services under its Medicare shared savings programme
Representing public and private companies and physician groups in the development of lithotripsy ventures in 36 states and five countries
Managing several HIPAA breaches for covered entities and business associates, including data breaches involving thousands of patients across multiple states and breaches involving law enforcement
Representing IT vendors in negotiations with the federal government regarding information blocking, the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, and meaningful use certification
Assisting a large academic medical facility with multiple hospitals with the development and execution of an EHR subsidy plan to offer EHR subsidies to more than 1,000 physicians.
Testimonials
"As a turnaround director/ interim executive in health and social care I have used the Healthcare Team at Womble Bond Dickinson on more than one occasion to advise on a variety of corporate transactions and regulatory matters.
With their help, we successfully delivered a complex restructure of a large care group over a 15-month period. This required intensive stakeholder management with the funders and importantly, preserved 1,800 jobs and secured the safe provision of care to 1,100 elderly and vulnerable residents.
The healthcare team and rest of the firm, provides timely, reliable, accurate and pragmatic advice and has a 'can do' attitude and I look forward to working with them again in the future."
Simon J Harrison, Managing Director, Ideas Afresh Ltd
“We consider one of their greatest strengths to be the broad resources that they bring to the table. It creates a one-stop shop for the legal services of a business organization.”
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