We support health organisations across the UK, delivering a wide range of legal expertise and support.
With health law and practice constantly evolving, our lawyers champion an outcome-based approach to ensure that service users experience a seamless journey. We are always mindful when advising on the legal aspects of a project that the cornerstone must be the experience that the service user receives from our clients.
We have expertise in advising Central Government (including the Department of Health and Social Care), Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), CCGs, NHS Foundation Trusts and other NHS bodies. We are also able to advise local authorities, and a number of our lawyers have worked in-house in health and social care services.
We are appointed to the NHS Legal Framework and regularly advise public sector bodies on the use and application of standard conditions and call off contracts – both from the point of view of the purchasing organisation and the supplier – and also advise on the use of DHSC non-mandated conditions for public health contracts.
13 November 2025
Between December 2024 and February 2025, the Government consulted on proposals to introduce measures to strengthen the standards and conduct regime for local authorities in England. Currently, the standards and conduct framework for local authorities, as set out in the Localism Act 2011, requires every local authority to adopt a code of conduct, which must…
Read more4 November 2025
This article seeks to provide contracting authorities (CAs) with the knowledge and guidance that they need to procure an open framework under the Procurement Act 2023 (PA23). The introduction of the PA23 has given CAs access to new commercial tools designed to make public procurement more flexible, transparent and outcome focused. One such innovation is…
Read more31 October 2025
Sharpe Pritchard LLP acted on behalf of East Sussex County Council in progressing a Compulsory Purchase Order (“CPO”), Side Roads Order and Bridge Scheme to enable the delivery of the Exceat Bridge Replacement Scheme, as confirmed by the Secretary of State for Transport on 7 October 2025. The confirmation of the CPO, together with the…
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