Hill Dickinson’s specialist healthcare regulatory team provides advice to NHS bodies on all NHS regulatory matters.
We advise primary care trusts and local health boards on their role in the regulation of GPs, dentists, ophthalmic practitioners and pharmacists. This is covered by the National Health Service (Performers Lists) Regulations 2004, the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2005 and associated Department of Health guidance.
Areas of expertise include:
- Advising primary care trusts and local health boards on the process of considering and granting, or refusing, applications for inclusion in a performers list
- Advising on the processes for investigating concerns about a performer and on the content of investigating officer reports
- Advising on the process for suspending performers, contingently removing and removing performers from performers lists
- Handling and responding to appeals to the Family Health Services Appeal Authority or Welsh Assembly
- Advising on the interaction between the performers lists regulatory process and police investigations, and the processes of other regulatory bodies such as the GMC and GDC
- Advising on the pharmacy control of entry process under the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2005 and associated Department of Health guidance
- Advice on pharmacists’ terms of service
Key contacts
Business Group Leader: Health
Allan Mowat
- Telephone
- +44 (0) 151 600 8298
- allan.mowat@hilldickinson.com
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Hill 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’.
This
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.
