Healthcare
The health, aged care, life sciences and disability services sectors are undergoing significant transformation.
This is driven by regulatory changes, an ageing population and patient expectations for hyper-personalised care. Meeting these challenges and improving patient outcomes will result from a wide range of capabilities, including strong strategic and commercial skills, performance management, robust reporting frameworks and effective use of technology.
By focusing on the different needs of healthcare stakeholders, our expert team are helping clients transform uncertainty into possibility, and rapid change into lasting progress. With deep industry experience, our team is uniquely positioned to provide legal guidance and support to clients, helping them successfully navigate this rapidly changing environment and transform the way that healthcare is provided.
How we can help
We have one of the leading healthcare legal practices in Australia. We understand the sector from an insider perspective, with many of our legal experts having either industry expertise or a clinical background.
As specialist lawyers with many years of expertise, our healthcare team are trusted advisers to clients in the healthcare sector.
We provide commercial solutions for our clients and help their businesses thrive.
Our healthcare team includes commercial lawyers who can help you with:
- mergers and acquisitions
- regulatory compliance
- corporate and clinical governance and risk management
- contracts, privacy, IT/IP, workforce issues, property and tax
- patient or client issues
- commercial disputes and commissions of inquiry.
Our medical defence and allied health defence team can assist insurance clients and self-insureds with:
- defending medical negligence complaints and claims
- medical, nursing and Allied Health Board investigations.
‘The detailed technical knowledge and expertise of all the fundamental aspects of health care, combined with the team’s pragmatic understanding of commercial implications and strict adherence to project timeframes has proven to be critical in securing opportunities in our highly regulated and competitive markets and has contributed materially to our commercial success.’
Client
Our clients
- Acute care, including public and private hospitals
- Government, including Departments of Health
- Charities
- Private Hospital operators
- Aged Care Providers
- NDIS Providers
- Primary Care
- Heath and medical research institutes
- Pharmaceutical and medical device companies
- Private Health insurers.
Our healthcare expertise
Our expertise includes:
- Advising on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate advisory and board advice, compliance with the Corporations Act and the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Act and capital raising, commercial agreements (including procurement) and intellectual property.
- Advising on regulatory issues, including aged care, retirement living, disability, hospital and health services legislation, the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law and Codes of Practice.
- Health law advice, including advising on consent, guardianship, advance care directives, human tissue legislation, health practitioner and therapeutic goods regulation etc.
- Advising on employment contracts, awards, enterprise agreements, anti-discrimination and equal opportunity policies and issues, termination disputes, transfer of business issues, management of performance and misconduct issues, restructuring strategies and the implementation of workplace change, industrial relations litigation and immigration.
- Advising on health, aged care, retirement living, disability and community housing infrastructure projects, including preparing documents for retirement village developments, sales, purchases, acquisitions and subdivisions and preparing and negotiating agreements.
- Advising on privacy laws and privacy complaints and draft privacy policies and compliance documents and management and employee training programs.
- Acting for medical defence organisations, workers compensation insurers, health care providers and health professions Australia-wide in a broad range of professional indemnity, public liability, product liability and disciplinary claims. Our work extends from claims management to policy development and risk assessments.
- Acting for more than 16 approved Aged Care providers in relation to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety.
