Coronavirus Legal Guidance - How We Can Help Your Healthcare Business
With the rapid spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) and increasing impact on our healthcare clients, we have mobilized a specialist team of cross-disciplinary lawyers to support you.
Our deep industry sector knowledge, combined with our legal and regulatory insights, can help you to respond to both the immediate and longer term business risk stemming from the rapid, global spread of COVID-19.
How Can We Support You?
- Employment - drafting and negotiating employment contracts for long term staff and/or short term staff engaged on a temporary basis, and also advice on secondment agreements and the furloughing of employees
- Commercial - for both commercial and clinical contracts: force majeure review, contract variations, subcontracts, new contracts, research contract review and dispute resolution support
- Regulatory - responding to CQC enforcement action, which started pre-pandemic
- Data Protection - drafting and reviewing data sharing agreements where providers are sharing patient/COVID-19 data, within their own Primary Care Networks, with NHS Trusts/Foundation Trusts and/or other third party providers
- Commercial Property/Licence - providing or reviewing occupation licences where you are permitting occupation of your premises to third party providers. We can also advise on any landlords/lenders notifications
- Corporate - providing corporate documentation including board minutes and/or shareholder resolutions (where needed)
- Insolvency - advising directors on their duties should solvency concerns arise, responding to payments demands from creditors and suppliers including statutory demands, winding up petitions and statutory petitions, and advising on proposed changes to insolvency legislation in light of the pandemic
VWV Retainer
We are pleased to offer a multi-tiered legal advice scheme to our healthcare providers. This service is charged on a fixed fee basis quarterly. Our team will serve as a 'virtual in-house' legal team, there to support you. Through this partner managed service, you will be provided with access to our core primary care team of 40 solicitors and over 400 legal experts at VWV, in order to seek advice on any legal issues or queries you may have.
To discuss your healthcare legal requirements, please contact Ben Willis in our Healthcare team on 07718 384957, or complete the form below.