Free Legal Resources for General Practitioners

Welcome to our free legal resource hub for GPs. Our dedicated team of primary care experts is here to provide you with a wealth of valuable tools and resources to support your practice. Whether you’re looking for the latest updates in the sector or practical advice to navigate legal challenges, we’ve got you covered.

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Free legal advice for GPs

Our team of primary care experts can offer GPs and their team members up to ten minutes of free preliminary legal advice on a number of legal issues including partnership agreements and disputes, practice mergers and acquisitions, premises and other real estate matters, PCNs, GP Federations, and regulatory matters.

Our free legal advice line for GPs is open 10am to 4pm, Monday – Friday.

Simply call 020 7839 0278 and ask for the GP advice line for up to 10 minutes’ free legal advice.

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Our latest primary care blogs

September 2025

Act fast if you receive a remedial or breach notice

August 2025

Is this the end of upwards only rent reviews? If so, is this good or bad news for GPs?

July 2025

NHS 10-Year Plan – Monday’s insight – NHS 10-year plan FAQs

NHS 10-Year Plan – Tuesday’s insight – Are traditional GP partnerships at risk?

NHS 10-Year Plan – Wednesday’s insight – PCNs and GP Federations – what are their roles within the new neighbourhoods?

NHS 10-Year Plan – Thursday’s insight – What are Neighbourhood Health Centres and will the Plan see investment in GP premises?

NHS 10-Year Plan – Friday’s insight – Implementing Neighbourhoods

Act now to deal with disputes between practices in your PCN

June 2025

GP Surgery Improvement Grants under the Primary Care Utilisation and Modernisation Fund

Exercising tenant’s break clauses

May 2025

5 Essential Tips for GPs to Manage Lease Dilapidations

Managing patient safety incidents is changing, is your practice prepared?

January 2025

Time to get into these new neighbourhood teams

October 2024

The Employment Rights Bill: Key changes for GP practices

September 2024

Fall-out of failure to look after data

August 2024

Primary Medical Services Policy and Guidance Manual: Why is it important to me?

July 2024

New rules for GP Premises Improvement Grants – what you need to know

You need to know the PGM 2024

What type of company should our PCN be?

Thinking of a move to the high street?

Evolving times for PCNs

June 2024

Are collaboration agreements contractual?

May 2024

What do the NHS Premises Costs Directions 2024 mean for practices?

New GP Premises Costs Directions – they are here!

Merger or take-over: are you prepared?

April 2024

Explained: the Provider Selection Regime for primary care services

March 2024

GP partnership changes and your premises

Do you want to bid for NHS contracts?

January 2024

When partnerships go bad

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Primary care webinars

Our primary care team run regular free legal webinars for GPs, covering a range of commercial, clinical, and regulatory issues.

Visit our events page to register your place on our upcoming webinars.

Watch the recordings of our past webinars on our YouTube channel.

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