GP & Primary Care Solicitors
Running a GP practice comes with complex legal and regulatory challenges that can take time away from patient care.
Our team of primary care solicitors provide clear, actionable support, helping GPs navigate legal complexities with confidence, ensuring they can operate and progress, in an ever evolving environment.
By blending legal knowledge with a deep understanding of the healthcare sector, our primary care solicitors provide practical, actionable advice that allows GPs to focus on what matters most.
Whether you are a GP, part of a Primary Care Network (PCN) or providing primary care at scale, we are here to support you with partnership agreements, practice mergers, surgery ownership, employment law, regulatory compliance, dispute resolution and more.
Choosing the right legal partner is essential for primary care providers. We bring not only broad legal expertise but a deep understanding of the GP sector. With more than 3 decades of experience in this area, we provide tailored advice that reflects the often-complex realities of running a modern practice.
We also work closely with banks, surveyors, accountants, regulators, LMCs and other specialist healthcare professionals, so you have the right expertise behind you when it matters most.
Our expertise
Our support goes beyond standard legal advice. Through regular webinars, we offer free legal training and support to help GPs and practice managers navigate legal updates and challenges. Our Annual GP Practice Management Conferences connects professionals throughout the sector, creating a space for GPs and practice managers to stay informed on sector changes, challenges and opportunities. We also host an annual Providers at Scale event as we understand the different challenges face by organisations working at scale.
We recognise that legal advice cannot be given in isolation. Our strong partnerships with banks, surveyors, accountants, LMCs and other specialist healthcare professionals enable us to take a collaborative approach.
Our team advises on the following areas:
Throughout my 13 years at the Practice, I have always felt reassured to have VWV at my side. Whether for main lease queries, assistance with raising issues and concerns to the landlord & owners, agreeing new leases, or assisting with Partnership Agreements or HR issues, their wealth of knowledge and experience has been invaluable. They have a great Team, and I am very thankful that they have been there for me through the years. There’s plenty more to do yet and I look forward to the relationship continuing to flourish.
Our work highlights
Mergers and takeovers
We routinely deal with mergers and takeovers of GP practices, having advised on well over 150 such deals over the past 10 years or so. It's always important to ensure that any continuing liabilities are understood, particularly as regards any premises. The merger agreement is key to ensuring this.
Property development
We advised on a complex agreement for lease with development obligations, lease, NHS Funding Grant Funding arrangements (£1.5 Million) and side funding arrangements and related documents in connection with the development of new surgery premises. This transaction involved liaison with the client, the developer and the NHS and their lawyers over a 12 month period.
Procurement challenge
We have successfully assisted a GP practice to challenge the award of an APMS contract under the Healthcare Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 (PSR). In this case, the commissioner backed down at the internal review stage, but we do have experience of appealing procurement decisions to the Independent Patient Choice and Procurement Panel.
