Independent Health
With 70 years of experience in healthcare, we’re the market leaders in providing expert corporate, commercial, and regulatory legal advice to independent healthcare providers. Our expert team has helped over 50% of independent health and social care providers in the UK to grow their business, and deliver high-quality patient and service user care.
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We understand the challenges facing independent healthcare providers, from structural changes and consolidation/new entrants, to increased CQC scrutiny on patient care, to cultural change affecting the management of the workforce and care of patients.
Offering tailored solutions that ensure compliance and sustainable growth, we provide legal, regulatory, and commercial advice, and support with mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and commercial contracts. Our expertise extends to data protection, information governance, clinical negligence, medical malpractice and employment, pensions and immigration law.
We anticipate legal and regulatory changes in the healthcare industry, and translate them into innovative solutions for our clients. Our expert team are pioneers in healthcare law, offering creative advice to our clients, and working in such a seamlessly fluent way with them that they find it hard to tell where their team ends and ours begins.
We provide strategic regulatory and legal advice at board level, considering the interface between independent health providers and the NHS, regulators, and commissioners/insurers to manage reputational risk.
Featured Experience
- Advising Elysium Healthcare (now owned by Ramsay Health Care) on the acquisition of the assets of an outgoing care provider and the grant of a high-value lease from an investor (rental value estimates at £22m) including all due diligence and work in relation to the development and refurbishment of the site.
- Advising Brainkind in relation to its acquisition of the Sue Ryder neurological services division in England. We advised on corporate, tax, regulatory, charities, commercial, employment, real estate and information law.
- Advising a private health group on a fundamental review of its engagement model with its medical consultants, including a review of the group's practising privileges (PP) arrangements, advising on tax related (IR35) and employment risks, and extensive competition advice to reframe its approach to pricing and control of doctors with PPs.
- Advising a large independent healthcare provider on CQC prosecution arising from a patient absconding over a fence in an acute inpatient setting, where the Secretary of State currently resists setting national standards around fence heights and environmental security measures (such as roll bars) for this particular level of mental health service.
- Advising a leading private healthcare provider on the management of extensive whistleblowing allegations by an ex-CEO including addressing the regulatory, employment and competition matters that arose and liaising with the various regulators involved in the management of the matter.
- Acting for one of the UK's largest private hospital groups on the company set up, commercial contracts, terms of use, data protection, and financial services compliance, to underpin arrangements for the launch of its ground-breaking self-pay digital healthcare platform, dubbed the 'Netflix for Healthcare'.
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Advocacy
Immersed in the insurance market, we continually deliver innovative solutions for you including a dedicated advocacy and advisory service.
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Commercial Health
The health and social care sector remains under great pressure to both generate efficiencies as well as adopt innovation, all while continuing to provide safe and high quality care. This means that informed, commercial decisions need to be made, often at pace, against a backdrop of complex frameworks, and within a highly regulated environment.
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Corporate Health
We work with a wide range of businesses, nationally and internationally, across the health and social care sector, providing a comprehensive service across the whole spectrum of corporate transactions and advice.
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Dispute Resolution
Our Dispute Resolution team has an established reputation for handling complex, high value commercial disputes and achieving successful and pragmatic solutions for our clients.
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Data, Privacy and Cyber in Health
Our specialist lawyers understand, and advise based on the sensitivity and huge value of data in health and social care.
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Health Employment
Our market-leading employment team provides tailored solutions to difficult problems across the health and social care sector.
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Health Procurement
Our market-leading health and procurement teams provide expert guidance and support, alongside a diverse range of solutions tailored to your needs.
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Public Law and Judicial Review
Our public law team is uniquely experienced in acting for public bodies on high-profile judicial reviews, and advisory work across the health and social care sector.
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Regulatory and Investigations
Our comprehensive regulatory services span diverse sectors, including healthcare, finance, and more. We offer pragmatic, industry-specific advice to ensure compliance and navigate complex regulations with confidence.
Learn moreWhat our clients say
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”The team at DAC Beachcroft are very knowledgeable, approachable and good at keeping us up to speed.
Chambers and Partners UK 2023 Edition, Healthcare client UK
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”They have good strength in depth and they're very commercially aware.
Chambers and Partners UK 2023 Edition, Healthcare client UK
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”They're extremely responsive and realistically manage expectations.
Chambers and Partners UK 2023 Edition, Healthcare client UK
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Who we are
Why choose DAC Beachcroft?
We’re a broad-based commercial firm serving a wide range of sectors with a strong heritage in insurance,
health and real estate. We combine excellent legal skills and cutting-edge delivery expertise to design
solutions that fit the needs of our clients – often involving clever uses of technology.
Charities and Not for Profit Providers
We’re passionate about the charity sector and have a deep understanding of the charity and not for profit regulatory environment as well as the wider health and social care sector.
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Health Infrastructure
Our infrastructure and projects team is at the forefront of advising clients on strategic healthcare infrastructure projects.
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Independent Health
Our award winning team is the leading provider of legal advice to the UK independent health and social care sector. We offer tailored solutions to help our clients deliver high-quality care.
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MedTech and Digital Health
Our market-leading team supports MedTech and digital health organisations, from ambitious innovators to established global listed companies, at various stages of their life cycle.
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Mental Health
We provide specialist, practical and tailored legal advice for mental health service providers and commissioners, with a 24-hour accessible service.
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NHS
We offer market-leading, innovative, legal advice to enable the NHS to focus on delivering high-quality, safe patient care.
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Social Care
Our experts provide trusted legal advice to a wide range of organisations operating within the social care sector, supporting them to deliver safe care that will withstand legal, regulatory and public scrutiny, whilst also growing and developing their own organisation.
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