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Depth and breadth of expertise and sector knowledge are key to our success as healthcare lawyers.

Hempsons LLP is a top-rated national law firm and a leader in the fields of health and social care law, crime and charity law. Read what the legal profession’s leading guides say about us.

Complementing the traditional health and social care advice we have extended our offerings to cover a full range of legal services delivered by specialist healthcare law teams. We offer services geared towards our key market sectors to ensure that our clients (both public and private sector), receive the right advice from the right person, at the right time and in a cost efficient manner. Our health law knowledge means that we can quickly get to grips with the key issues facing you and your organisation and work with you to deliver the right solution.

In the NHS alone, our clients include over 180 organisations, trusts and foundation trusts, commissioning bodies and NHS England’s Area Teams. We also act for private healthcare providers and hundreds of individual GPs, dentists and other healthcare-related professionals and practitioners at any one time. Our ‘top 10′ charities practice has in excess of 160 clients, comprising charity and not-for-profit organisations of all sizes and our charity solicitors have extensive experience in this area.

We are committed to our clients and to understanding them, their needs, objectives and business environments. This is particularly true in helping them manage the challenge and opportunities flowing from sustainability and transformation plans. Our healthcare lawyers offer practical interpretations of the changes in law and statutes, so that our clients can add value to their business models with the benefit of our advice and support.

The service we provide is responsive and available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. At the outset of any project or piece of work we agree with our clients the work to be done, costs and timetable. The advice we provide is commercial and practical and given/written in plain English.

Hempsons LLP is Lexcel and Investors in People accredited to assure clients of a quality service. We’re also accredited with the ISO 9001 quality standard. We use the term “partner” to refer to a member of Hempsons LLP or an employee or consultant with equivalent standing and qualifications.

 

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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

This Bill seeks to permit “assisted dying” and it passed its second reading in the House of Commons on 29 November. It has a long way to go and will be subject to debate and amendment at the next “committee” stage.

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