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Addleshaw Goddard LLP continues to act on many major PFI/PPP health and LIFT projects. In the private sector, the team is advising on a number of social enterprise arrangements, and Assura Group and Mouchel Group plc are clients. The firm is noted for its willingness ‘to deploy the full resources of its team and to make facilities available’. Head of projects Michael O’Connor is currently on a part-time secondment to the NWSHA.

Hempsons has ‘some of the best experts in the field’. Property specialist Jane Donnison has ‘a good team, who are all dependable and enthusiastic in dealing with many of the complexities which face the NHS’; and widely respected mental health expert Bill Leason is ‘friendly, helpful and will work quickly to provide advice’. Sean Reynolds recently handled a number of test cases.

Hill Dickinson LLP has a large NHS client base with over 80 clients in the North West region and elsewhere. The team has also been appointed to all ten lots on the North West NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub. Practice head Allan Mowat is ‘experienced, wise, sensible and pragmatic’.

With dedicated employment, property and corporate teams focusing on healthcare, Weightmans LLP is well placed to advise its expanding client base on the full range of issues. Recent work includes advising a PCT on a TCS Programme involving property issues, asset divestment and monitoring requirements, and policy considerations. Practice head Richard Jolly is recommended.

Recent work for Beachcroft includes advising on the integration of PCT provider arm services into foundation trusts; employment and pensions issues; and the property aspects of Transforming Community Services. New clients include a number of PCTs and foundation trusts, and also RBS.

Brabners Chaffe Street LLP has continued to strengthen its corporate capabilities in the sector, with the addition of Gill Gardner in the Preston office from Oglethorpe Sturton & Gillibrand. The team is currently undertaking cutting-edge work involving corporate structures for public-private joint ventures for healthcare practitioners.

Kevin Jaquiss at Cobbetts LLP leads a cross-disciplinary team at the forefront of developing new structures outlined in the government’s White Paper regarding the delivery of public services by employees and communities.

Work highlights for DWF LLP included acting for private healthcare developer Primary Horizons; and advising Healthcare at Home on a complex and innovative contractual matter. Katharine Mellor, who has particular experience in advising on the devolution of NHS services to private corporate bodies, is recommended.

Eversheds LLP is particularly strong in litigation, and recent work includes successfully defending NHS Hull PCT in a judicial review challenge to its decision to transfer its provider function to a social enterprise. Other clients include Mid Staffordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry.

George Davies Solicitors LLP has an active healthcare team, with Anne Fairhurst recommended.

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