Healthcare Regulatory
Our specialist healthcare regulatory team consists of highly experienced lawyers who support clients across the health and social care industry. We advise care homes on maintaining compliance and operational standards with Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulations and assist healthcare professionals with fitness to practise matters.
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If you work in health and social care, you need legal advice which is a help – not a hinderance – to your day job. I understand the practical reality of running a business like yours, and I ensure my support is available at a time that works for you. My legal specialisms cover the full health and social care regulatory spectrum to ensure you receive the right advice no matter what you’re faced with.
With over 50 years acting for health and social care businesses and individuals, I’m well-versed in the challenges faced by those in the sector and the best way to overcome them. I work with providers who are involved in high-pressure legal situations which pose a commercial or reputational risk to their business, advising on all aspects of health and social care regulation.
Healthcare regulatory experts
Our team of specialist Healthcare regulatory lawyers have been advising clients across the healthcare sector for over 50 years.
The health and social care industry is heavily regulated from bodies such as the CQC and Ofsted. Our team provide leading legal, operational and strategic regulatory advice to providers across the healthcare sector to support with compliance and operating safely.
Where organisations and health and social care professionals require further advice of regulatory matters. HCR Law provides a full service offering, with specialist healthcare lawyers property, corporate and employment matters.
Our clients
Working closely with a diverse range of clients who are subject to regulation, HCR Law provides strategic advice to adult and children’s social care providers, NHS Trusts, GP practices, and dental practices. Our extensive experience enables us to find solutions for even the most complex regulatory situations.
Managing immediate situations while considering long-term implications is a priority. By offering our views and advice grounded in experience and knowledge, we provide proactive and practical solutions.
Our focus is on building long lasting relationships. Rather than simply presenting what the options are and then walk away leaving you to weigh everything up. We will offer our views and advice based on our experience and knowledge to provide proactive, practical solutions.
Wide-ranging and in-depth expertise
Our in-depth knowledge across the healthcare sector means we represent clients across a range of regulatory and investigatory areas, including;
- Appeals to the First-Tier Tribunal
- Challenging inspection reports and ratings
- Challenging notices to suspend, cancel or vary registration
- Challenging warning notices, fixed penalty notices and prosecutions
- Commissioner fee, contract disputes and embargos
- Fitness to Practise and NHS Investigations
- Inquests
- Police investigations
- Registration advice and challenges to refuse
- Regulatory due diligence
- Safeguarding investigations
- University/Student Fitness to Practise.
Specialist lawyers Ridouts have joined HCR Law’s healthcare team
Their services include advice on safeguarding, commissioning contracts, handling regulator prosecutions, and more.
Why engage a Healthcare Regulatory lawyer?
Specialist layers can often seem like a ‘nice to have’ – however, having someone on your side who truly knows the discipline, as well as the legal ins and outs, is a vital part of reaching a smooth resolution. Regulatory lawyers stay abreast of the developments in an ever-changing sector, and this is none truer than in the healthcare sector.
Whether you’re faced with a notice of proposal, an inspection report or an inquest, our specialist lawyers bring a forensic eye for detail and thorough understanding of the stakeholders involved that relieves some of the burden on providers and enables them to focus on delivering care.
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