Healthcare Services

We appreciate that the legalities of selling, buying, and running a healthcare business are a minefield and we are here to assist you in every way that we can to make your experiences as pain-free as possible.

The combined legal expertise of the lawyers in the Fisher Jones Greenwood corporate and healthcare team enables us to offer a comprehensive range of legal services to relevant professionals, including:-

• Business sales and purchases
• NHS Contract transfer and general regulatory advice
• Expense sharing agreements and partnership agreements
• Associate agreements and employment contracts
• Employment and HR advice
• Incorporation
• Property advice
• In order to ensure that your interests are protected, you need specialist Solicitors with expertise and experience on your side to guide you through the legal process.

Fisher Jones Greenwood is recommended by the specialist dental practice selling agents, healthcare lenders, specialist financial advisers, and accountants within the sector.

Contact Us

To make an appointment with the Healthcare team, Leah Groves on 01245 584515 or email [email protected].

The Fisher Jones Greenwood Dental team are knowledgeable, reliable, and pro-active and work tirelessly together to deliver practical, commercial high-quality specialist legal advice to our dental clients.

We have many years of experience acting for dentists all over England and Wales and can advise you on the following:-

• Sales and purchases of dental practices covering asset and company share transactions
• The commercial and business structure of your dental practice
• Incorporating your dental practice including the preservation of your NHS contract
• Your NHS contracts including regulatory advice and NHS contract transfer on sale
• CQC registration within the context of sales and purchases
• Drafting and advising on partnership and expense sharing agreements
• Associate agreements, employment contracts, and general HR advice
• Property assistance for freehold and leasehold properties

As a result of our expertise in this area, we are recommended by the specialist dental practice selling agents, healthcare lenders, specialist financial advisers, and accountants within the dental sphere.

We are on the panel of specialist dental lawyers recommended by the British Dental Association as being experts in the dental industry. We are also proud to receive frequent recommendations and referrals from our past and existing clients.

We look after our clients and as we understand how your business works and the nuances of the NHS Contracts and the CQC regulations, we will use our expertise to support and guide you through the legal complexities to help you achieve your desired result.

To make an appointment with the Healthcare team, email [email protected]

The healthcare team at Fisher Jones Greenwood LLP has particular strength and experience in the acquisition, selling, and financing of pharmacies. We understand that pharmacies are not your everyday company when it comes to a sale, they are complex businesses that are surrounded by red tape and regulations. Our healthcare team are here to guide you through the process and offer you support and expert advice throughout the transaction.

Our services in pharmacies include:

• Sale and purchase of pharmacies covering asset and share sale transactions
• Legal due diligence and disclosure of matters relating to the business
• Drafting and advising on the sale agreement.
• Property assistance for the freeholder and leasehold properties and all other matters relating to the property
• Advising on the procedural steps in the transfer of employees and ensuring the buyer and seller fulfill their obligations under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations.
• The financing of the transaction, whether this be acting for the purchasers and/or the bank.

Our healthcare team is available for appointments at all of our offices in London, Chelmsford, Colchester, Billericay, Clacton-on-Sea, and Holland-on-Sea in Essex. We appreciate that time and cost are significant elements of legal work and we offer flexible terms and fixed prices for all our services. To make an appointment with the Healthcare team, Leah Groves on 01245 584515 or email [email protected].

We offer specialist services to General Practitioners and those providing general medical and primary care services.

We know that GPs are under constant pressure. Whether it’s to provide seven-day opening hours, manage staff recruitment, cope with funding cuts, take early retirement or simply juggle operating costs such as practice staff salaries, equipment, and rent.

Meeting the Challenges – How FJG can help.

Virtually all of these pressures can be eased by sound legal advice. Our understanding of the industry has allowed us to tailor support services which can help practices meet these challenges:

• Partnership and succession issues – We can advise on the legal agreements which any GP partnership should have in place and on arrangements for retirement and admission of new profit-sharing partners.
• Property – There are often associated property transactions which need to take place with partnership issues. Finance needs to be obtained to discharge capital and property interests of outgoing partners
• Mergers – Practices frequently face challenges arising out of prospective mergers. We have an expert team of corporate lawyers who can structure these transactions in the most effective way.
• Disputes – We have trained mediators who can help when disputes arise with regard to partnership and general governance issues within practices.
• Contracts – Ever changing commissioning contracts, IT contracts for the supply and maintenance of new technology all require expert legal advice if expensive mistakes or unforeseen liabilities are to be avoided.
• Employment & HR – We have expert employment lawyers available and access to outsourced temporary HR support. We can also arrange Health and Safety audits and support. We won’t tie you into long term contracts where you pay irrespective of the level of service you receive. Insurance to cover the practice for legal costs and employment awards is also available.
• Personal Legal Services – We can provide individual support to General Practitioners in relation to their individual legal needs such as Wills, trusts, and IHT planning. We have a large private client department which specialises in these areas with lawyers available across Essex and in London.

Initial telephone consultations when we can discuss the needs of the practice and structure an appropriate legal support service are free, call Tony Fisher today on 01245 584515 or email [email protected].