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Lease Negotiations for Private Practices – Tips and Traps

If you have a private practice, you will know that the location, quality and cost of your premises are of fundamental importance to the ongoing success of the business. Your practice may even be synonymous with its location and maintaining that presence could be crucial to the goodwill of the… Read More

Possible Legal and Regulatory Developments following the Bawa-Garba Case

Many (if not all) private practitioners will no doubt be familiar with the case of Dr Bawa-Garba, the junior doctor who recently successfully appealed a decision to strike her off the medical register following an earlier conviction for gross negligence manslaughter (please case summary below if not). Indeed, some may… Read More

The ‘right to return’ – where GPs suspend their primary care contracts to participate in an Accountable Care Organisation, what are their rights if they want to go back to their practice?

NHS England consulted in the autumn on changes to regulations to support the introduction of Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs). This included consultation on the ‘right to return’, a mechanism designed to provide assurance to GPs considering integrating their services with an ACO. Under NHS England’s ‘fully integrated’ model commissioners are… Read More