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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.

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Work highlights

  • Seconding lawyers to DHSC’s NHS Test & Trace Programme in-house legal team to support in the fight against Covid-19. Our lawyers provided internal legal support to the programme on a wide range of complex issues, including procurement and commercial contracts.
  • Advising Moorfields Eye Hospital in relation to contractual arrangements related to a research and development programme that aimed to look at whether artificial intelligence programmes are capable of diagnosing certain eye conditions.
  • Reviewing the most appropriate IP arrangement and advised on data protection elements for University College London Hospitals to exploit the value within clinical and operational data, particularly in the field of artificial intelligence.
  • Advising the Pan London Sexual Health Programme on a procurement for e-portal access to sexual health services across London.

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Award-winning London legal practice Sharpe Pritchard has been appointed as a supplier to the new Orbis Framework in a wide range of areas, including procurement, construction local government, planning, employment and litigation. Orbis is a partnership of the legal services of Brighton & Hove City Council, East Sussex County Council and West Sussex County Council….

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