Health and Social Care

Anderson Strathern provide a tailor-made and compassionate service, with exceptional legal expertise, highly efficient organisation and a comprehensive and structured approach to the case in hand.
Chambers and Partners

The Health and Social Care sector covers every area of the legal market.  As a full service law firm we have built our exceptional reputation in this sector by understanding and meeting the requirements of every one of these areas through our cross-departmental health and social care group. 

Our specialists in the group deliver professional, high quality legal services in the clinical and corporate governance, commercial real estate, NHS and partnership contracts, employment, professional disciplinary, public body, clinical negligence and personal injury sectors. 

Our health and social care group is lead by our chairman and partner, Robert Carr, who is one of the most respected practitioners in Scotland in this area. 

Our corporate and commercial real estate specialists undertake significant healthcare property transactions in areas such as nursing homes, GP practices, pharmacies, dental practices with aggregate deals now in excess of several million pounds.

We advise on partnership contracts, buy, sell and leaseback commercial property and on pharmacy law. We are able to offer a seamless service to ensure that all the advice ancillary to the deal is available to clients – employment, professional registration, governance and finance

We have the specialist expertise involved in providing high level public law advice to a large number of important health and social care non-departmental government bodies. Rapid legal change and increased scrutiny has put these bodies in the media and public spotlight and we are perfectly placed to advise the wide range of bodies in this sector.

We also have a very considerable expertise in the growing field of professional regulation with a particular emphasis on the health and social care area.  We appear at professional disciplinary hearings and represent these bodies in judicial review and appeals to the Court of Session. 

Our clinical negligence practice is involved in claims worth many millions of pounds.  It is the only one in Scotland with two accredited specialists. Chambers and Partners have ranked us in the ‘Professional Discipline - Best of the UK’ category, making us the only wholly Scottish based firm to achieve such a ranking.

For more information please contact Robert Carr.