Healthcare Solicitors

The sector is embracing the need to prevent as well as cure in order to improve health outcomes, offer better access to health services and relieve pressure on the healthcare system. There is a new focus on “wellness”. Healthcare providers are responding by expanding and diversifying their existing offerings. Med-tech businesses are creating new technologies to enhance the efficacy of existing therapies.

Traditional and new care pathways are beginning to converge through joined-up thinking and the application of supportive technology. This is democratising healthcare. Individuals will increasingly expect to be able to choose what, how and when care is delivered. In such a fast-changing environment it can feel as if the rules are being rewritten.

Our healthcare solicitors help to ensure that your business can continue to thrive.

Expert legal support for healthcare businesses

With extensive experience in the sector, our national team of experts support health and social care providers, as well as medicine, medical device and digital health businesses. The healthcare lawyers at Shakespeare Martineau are well-positioned to help with a wide range of regulatory and commercial issues, including:

• Regulatory advice, compliance, and due diligence
• Social housing
• Later living
• Employment law
• Contractual disputes
• Commercial development
• Intellectual property
• Insurance

Whether you’re an entrepreneur, experienced owner-manager, CFO, CSO or a pre-revenue start-up, we understand that you need advice based on an understanding of the environment in which you work.

After many years working within the healthcare space, with clients across the country, there is very little that we haven’t already seen or been involved with.

Working with you

Our healthcare solicitors understand the importance of robust and pragmatic advice to drive your business forward, which only comes from building a genuine long-term relationship with you. In a complex, dynamic sector, you need commercial advice that is based on a deep understanding of the challenges you face. Honesty and commerciality lie at our core and our mission is to ensure you’re maximising opportunities and protected against threats.