Healthcare
Berryman's Healthcare team pulls together a broad spectrum of expertise aimed at the fast changing healthcare sector. Berryman's specialist services for the sector include:
- Acquisitions and disposals
- Clinical governance
- Commercial - contracts, financing, intellectual property, IT, data procurement and freedom of information
- Commercial litigation - contractual and product liability claims
- Construction - contracts, risk management, dispute resolution
- Corporate governance
- Employment advice
- Environmental
- Health and safety - risk assessment, investigations
- HR advice on recruitment and retention
- Immigration advice
- Inquests
- Judicial reviews
- Leasehold agreements
- Patient advice - consent to treatment, withdrawal of treatment, medicial records, confidentiality and data protection
- Partnership issues
- Planning
- Property - asset disposal, funding schemes, general property issues
- Risk management and audit
- Shareholders agreements
- Wills, probate tax and trusts
Berryman's Healthcare sector team provides advice in relation to healthcare provision:
Care homes
- Acting for clients on the sale and acquisition of care homes (residential, learning difficulty, dementia and mixed-care homes)
- Advising care home owners and commercial developers on the development of care home premises.
- Defending care home owners against claims by local authorities, PCT and patients
- Advising care home owners on recruitment, retention and immigration issues
- Advising care home owners taking on debt and equity finance
- Acting for debt funders in relation to acquisition and development finance for care homes
- Work alongside a leading recruitment practice specialising in recruitment of care home assistants
- Advising and assisting care organisations under investigation by enforcing authorities
- Representing care organisations in Magistrates' and Coroners' Courts
- Advising and assisting clients in Care Tribunal issues
- Press and media advice and management to care organisations in respect of incidents, investigations and enforcement action
- Advice and assistance in handling complaints made by users and families against care organisations
Primary care
Acting for GP surgeries in relation to:
- Partnership agreements and disputes
- New contracting agreements with PCT's
- Tendering for APMS contracts
- Development of premises
- Cluster agreements
- Employment issues and disputes
Acting for dentistry practices in relation to:
- Sale and acquisitions of businesses
- Partnership agreements and disputes
- Employment issues and disputes
Acting for opticians in relation to:
- Joint ventures
- Franchising
- Employment issues and disputes
Acting for local authority in relation to:
- NHS LIFT agreement
- Provision of domiciliary care services
- Shared services partnering arrangements
Integrated Services Treatment Centres:
Advising on establishment of first City Centre ISTC in Nottingham.
Children's day nurseries
Advising CDN owners on:
- Sales and acquisitions of nurseries
- Refinancing
- Development of nursery school premises
The team also has significant strength in depth on the healthcare products and R&D side.