Health and Wellbeing
Wake Smith’s lawyers work across every strand of the health and wellbeing sector, providing a comprehensive range of legal advice for GPs, dentists, pharmacists, opticians, care homes, gyms and other wellbeing centres, physiotherapists and nutritionists.
Within the health and wellbeing sector, your job is to make sure your patients, residents, customers or clients receive the best possible care. As lawyers, our job is to make sure your practice or business remains in the best possible health by providing all the legal support you need.
You may need help to:
- Buy or sell a business or a practice
- Form or review your partnership agreement or formalise your legal structure
- Bring in new partners or manage partner exits
- Ensure you have all the contracts you need to do business
- Buy, sell or lease the property your business or practice needs
- Manage your full- or part-time staff and independent contractors
- Settle a dispute or recover outstanding debt
Our health and wellbeing team includes specialists in all these areas. More specifically, our team also has extensive experience of working with:
GPs, dentists, pharmacists, opticians
Our specialist healthcare team have worked with many regional and national GPs, dentists, pharmacists, opticians and their practice managers.
Having helped practices address a wide range of commercial, structural, operational, partnership, employment and property issues, we understand the challenges every type of primary care practice faces. More importantly, we know how to overcome them.
Care Homes
As a care home owner or manager, you need lawyers who truly understand the operational demands of care homes and the increasing financial and regulatory pressures central and local government are placing on the care sector.
We have supported the individuals and groups operating in the care sector for decades, providing the practical and commercially focused corporate, commercial, property and employment advice they need to operate efficiently and continue to grow.
Gyms and other wellbeing centres
Businesses in the health and wellbeing industry have a broad range of legal challenges to navigate from setting up, implementing key contracts and terms and conditions in place and protecting their brand though to securing the right to occupy properties and managing their workforce.
Wake Smith’s health and wellbeing team has a wealth of experience in all these areas. We have helped the owners of gyms, spas, retreats and other wellbeing centres successfully navigate the potential pitfalls and set out on the road to success.
