Partnership: Medical

Hempsons has a large team of solicitors able to provide specialist advice to general practitioners. The firm act for thousands of GPs, together with many GP provider organisations and "super partnerships". They offer guidance on the new models of care, including, in particular involvement in and the implications for GPs of the evolving integrated care initiatives being developed as part of each NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plan.

The firm can help your practice merge, form a super partnership or work more closely together in an alliance model, all designed to produce the benefits of scale necessary under the STP. They can help you exploit the new opportunities available to general practitioners, as well as offering practical solutions to assist in resolving the day to day problems that arise in a busy practice.

Expertise:

• Partnership agreements & disputes
• Practice sales, mergers & closer working
• Employment law
• Property ownership/lease issues
• Premises construction and/or refurbishment
• Contractual & Performers List issues
• GMC investigations
• Clinical negligence claims
• General practitioner participation in new care models
• Provider organisations
• GPs as commissioners
• Commercial contracts and procedures