NHS employment

Hill Dickinson’s health team includes a specialist group providing quality advice and practical solutions on employment-related issues in the health sector.

Areas of expertise include:

  • Contracts of employment, policy documents and staff handbooks
  • Equal pay, discrimination, victimisation and harassment
  • Disciplinary, dismissal and grievance procedures
  • Maternity and parental rights
  • Working time
  • Pay, benefits and pensions
  • Trades unions and industrial action
  • Transfers of undertakings (TUPE)
  • Whistle blowing
  • Employment tribunal proceedings

 

Key contacts


Philip Farrar
Partner
Philip Farrar
Telephone
+44 (0)151 600 8615
Email
philip.farrar@hilldickinson.com
Andrew Gibson
Partner
Andrew Gibson
Telephone
+44 (0)1244 896627
Email
andrew.gibson@hilldickinson.com
James Upton
Partner
James Upton
Telephone
+44 (0)161 817 7262
Email
james.upton@hilldickinson.com


Legal 500 2012 logoHill Dickinson LLP’s team provides ‘an extremely high standard of service’. It advises NHS clients on a variety of issues, and has also been active for clients in the logistics sector.

Legal 500 2012 logoHill Dickinson LLP provides ‘prompt, professional, accessible advice’ to a client base of over 100 NHS and private sector groups, and is a member of the North West Collaborative Hub. It acted in the Mid Staffordshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust public inquiry, and advised Morecambe Bay NHS Trust on the Furness General Hospital investigation. Newly promoted partner Philippa Hipwell is ‘excellent, dedicated, professional and prepared to go the extra mile’, and Sharon Thomas is also recommended.

Chambers 2012 Leading Firm logoHill Dickinson has built an excellent client base around several key sectors, and remains active in equal pay litigation, tribunal claims, TUPE transfers and industrial relations issues. The team is strongly acknowledged for its representation of health trusts, where it defends against claims relating to whistle-blowing and unfair dismissal. Members of the team are also active in the retail, logistics, social housing and local authority sectors. Clients include AstraZeneca, Iceland Foods and Wincanton.

Chambers 2012 Leading Firm logoHill Dickinson manages a broad healthcare practice, acting for a range of both public and private sector clients across a wide array of legal services, including litigation, commercial, property, employment and mental health issues. The team's reach is national in scope, although it is best recognised as the clear leader for North Western NHS clients. The team was recently instructed by NHS West Midlands in relation to the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry.