Legal advice for the health and social care sector.
In a highly challenging sector, you need lawyers who have the proven expertise to protect and grow your business.
You need lawyers who are highly attuned to the health and social care sector.
Our advice and services are tailored to suit the specific needs of our clients.
Our Health & Social Care team is regularly instructed on health and social care matters across a variety of operators including residential and nursing, specialist and learning disability, retirement villages, children’s services and homecare and supported living, dentists, pharmacies and GPs.
We are highly regarded by key stakeholders in the sector, including being recommended lawyers for the Care Association Alliance, NASAP and a commercial partner of Care England, the leading representative body for independent care services in England.
Our advice and services are tailored to suit the specific needs of our clients. We act for:
“On planning our retirement from the care industry we were looking to sell two care homes individually. We spoke with three firms personally and selected RWKG based upon their knowledge of the industry and our feeling that we could work with them best. Both sales were completed, not without challenges, so we were pleased and relieved that we had Hazel and Freya on our side. Both did a great job for us and we would recommend the team to any care home owner, small or large.”
“The hard work and professionalism you have shown throughout the process has been fantastic and this coupled with your knowledge in the care sector has made this transaction a pretty stress free experience for us.”
Somerset Care on the acquisition of the domiciliary care focussed Way Ahead Care Limited and Way Ahead Community Care Services Limited.
Sentinel Health Care Limited on their sale of 5 nursing homes and extra care apartments to Allegra Care and Moorfield.
Equality Care Limited on the disposal of its 4 home group.
Advising a care provider charity on a whistleblowing; safeguarding and disciplinary matter.
Successfully challenging a CQC inspection report and increasing the overall rating from Requires Improvement to Good.
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Service user contracts
It is vital for providers to ensure that service user contracts are well drafted, compliant with consumer law and watertight to protect against non-payment.
Partner, Hazel Phillips has developed a model contract which is compliant with consumer and mental capacity legislation but also draws on our experience of resolving contract issues for and protecting providers. It caters for both residential and nursing homes.
A separate contract has been developed for domiciliary and community care providers.