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Healthcare is one of the most complex, fastest growing and heavily regulated industries, requiring specialised legal representation. Our leading international healthcare team advises private and public sector hospitals, healthcare professionals and their insurers on clinical and medical law issues. We advise on contentious and non-contentious matters.
Acting across both the public and private healthcare sectors gives us a unique understanding of healthcare law from every perspective. Our market-leading team of dedicated legal and clinical experts has provided advice for over 30 years.
We have expertise all over the world and handle a wide range of health law matters on an international scale. We successfully manage medico-legal matters for hospitals, clinics, doctors, insurers, reinsurers and medical defence organisations.
- Medical malpractice
- Clinical trials
- Litigation defence
- Litigation for healthcare professionals
- Mediation
- Medical law
- Child protection
- Consent and related areas
- Court of Protection
- Death inquests
- Deprivation of Liberty
- Mental health
- Mental capacity
- Commercial dispute resolution
- Board and contractual disputes
- Commercial recoveries and enforcement
- Civil Injunctions and debt claims
- Protection of confidential information
- Commercial law/IT/outsourcing
- All aspects of commercial contracts, supply agreements,
framework agreements, outsourcing agreements,
IT/software agreements, introduction and collaboration
agreements and general terms and conditions. - Employment law, business immigration and labour relations
- Performance and conduct issues
- Whistleblowing
- Employment status
- Equality Act / discrimination
- Practising privileges
- Employment Tribunal litigation
- Employment contract disputes
- Healthcare data protection
- Data strategy
- Data breach and cyber-attack response
- Products law and life sciences
- Product liability and product-related contentious issues
- Product safety, regulatory and compliance
- Public and employers’ liability
- Abuse
- Real estate, planning and construction
- Site acquisitions and disposals
- Landlord and tenant transactions and licences
- Capital projects, including development and works agreements, building contracts and professional appointments for new-builds or refurbishments.
- Facilities management and service level agreements
- Regulatory investigations
Healthcare claims conversations
A practical video series from Kennedys on medical malpractice and healthcare litigation.
We cover the essentials - Part 36, CPR updates, consent, AI in healthcare and running a safe clinical private practice - with clear takeaways for NHSR, insurers and providers.
Global Healthcare Handbook
Our Global Healthcare Handbook provides a clear and practical overview of medical negligence claims, inquests, practitioner regulation, and brain injury at birth claims in multiple regions.
