Dental law

As dental law experts Hill Dickinson offers the complete legal solution to the dental healthcare market.

We offer forward thinking, integrated business solutions to clients operating in a market driven by the need to deliver affordable healthcare services in a difficult commercial climate.

With knowledge of the legal and regulatory framework facing dental practitioners, combined with the firm’s unparalleled breadth of technical expertise, we are ideally placed to provide comprehensive and cost-effective legal advice and support to dental clients.

Dental law services
Areas in which we advise and provide support include:

  • Associate, hygienist and therapist contracts
  • Care Quality Commission (CQC) registration requirements
  • Corporate, commercial and financial matters
  • Defence of General Dental Council (GDC) proceedings
  • Employment
  • Information governance
  • NHS statutory framework
  • Responding to patient complaints and claims
  • Private dental plans
  • Procurement
  • Property and construction

Our clients
We advise those operating in both the public and private sector including:

  • Dental practitioners
  • Dental corporations
  • Hygienists
  • Therapists
  • Businesses carrying out dentistry

 

 

       
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Legal 500 2012 logoHill Dickinson LLP has a large NHS client base with over 80 clients in the North West region and elsewhere. The team has also been appointed to all ten lots on the North West NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub. Practice head Allan Mowat is ‘experienced, wise, sensible and pragmatic’.

Legal 500 2012 logoHill Dickinson LLP represents over 40 NHS trusts through NHSLA schemes. The ‘second-to-none’ team is currently involved in the high-profile ‘Rowlands’ litigation, comprising over 300 claims. Mike McKenna’s ‘technical and intellectual expertise is awesome’; and Andrew Leslie has ‘impeccable judgement’. Richard Watson leads the team.

Chambers 2012 Leading Firm logoThis firm's practice has a national range, but it is especially identified as a player in the North West and West Midlands. It is one of only two firms to have been appointed to all ten lots of the North West NHS Commercial Agency, which is testament to both great breadth of expertise and deep capacity. The team was recently sought out by NHS West Midlands to advise on the Mid Staffordshire inquiry.

Chambers 2012 Leading Firm logoClient service "They are very professional and efficient, and keep us up to date with everything that is happening. They probably chase us more than we chase them!" "Timely delivery, quality work, and all at a good price."

Chambers 2012 Leading Firm logoCommercial awareness "It is very clear that they understand the business side as well as the NHS side."

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