Alice Thursfield

Practice Areas

Alice is an Associate within the Commercial Group, specialising in the regulation of health and social care services. Alice’s experience also includes advising on wider regulatory matters relating to Ofsted, DBS, NMC and SWE disputes.

She has a range of drafting experience including appeals to the Care Standards Tribunal (First Tier), Representation to CQC in respect of enforcement action, Factual Accuracy and Ratings Review challenges to the CQC. Alice also has issued judicial review proceedings to the High Court in relation to disputed inspection reports for both CQC and Ofsted. Alice’s experience covers regulatory due diligence projects for sales, purchases and investment for some of the largest care providers in the sector.

Alice also regularly undertakes work in Coroner’s inquests matters, safeguarding matters and police investigations in respect of criminal prosecutions of care providers. She has experience in challenging local authority decisions in respect of funding and Care Act matters. Alice provides advice to providers in respect of contract compliance with both CMA and LGO guidance. She also provides urgent support to providers in respect of contact with the media in relation to enforcement action.

Publications

Alice is regularly involved with drafting articles for sector publications and enjoys speaking at and attending events within the sector.

Clients

Alice advises and acts for providers on regulatory matters in respect of a range of services and settings covering: residential care and nursing homes; GP surgeries; independent hospitals; children’s homes; domiciliary care services; services for people with learning disabilities; specialist training providers in the adult social care sector and patient transport services.