Primary Care

Whether you are a Primary Care Network, an individual GP practice, or a private provider of primary care services, our specialist Healthcare team has a wealth of experience in providing holistic advice across the primary care sector. 

A specialist team that understands

The Healthcare team is fully tuned into the opportunities and innovations affecting primary care, as well as the pressures and challenges brought about by significant changes across the healthcare landscape in recent years.

The role of a primary care clinician is today as demanding as it has ever been, from the key focus of providing high quality patient care, involvement in primary care networks and various other roles and responsibilities, and managing the relationship with the practice’s regulators, to establishing new income streams and managing practice succession.

Against this background, the value of a trusted legal advisor is clear. Our specialist Healthcare team regularly acts for primary care clients across the UK. By harnessing our in-depth knowledge and extensive experience, our clients benefit from tailored advice that reflects the sector’s key challenges and opportunities.

Wide-ranging healthcare expertise

The work we specifically carry out for primary care providers includes:

• Drafting and advising on partnership deeds.
• Practice mergers.
• Partnership disputes.
• Implementing partner exits and new partners joining.
• Surgery ownership and development, including sales and leasebacks.
• Drafting and negotiating leases and licences.
• Employment and immigration law advice.
• CQC regulatory advice.
• Data protection.
• Commercial contracts and arrangements.
• Pharmacy arrangements.

Our work with primary care networks also specifically includes:

• Advising on structure and whether to incorporate.
• Advising on whether PCN companies need to be CQC registered.
• Reviewing and drafting the schedules to network agreements.
• Incorporating PCN companies and drafting the Articles of Association for PCN companies.
• Advising on information governance and data protection.
• Advising on employment models and structures.
• Preparing secondment agreements, joint employment contracts and sub-contract agreements.
• Advising on procurement and state aid.
• General employment advice.
• Advising on member exits and on new members joining the network.

We’re recognised by both Chambers and Legal 500 (2025) with commentators saying “The team are reactive, knowledgeable, and treat you like an individual rather than just another client. Helen Wallwork is knowledgeable and reliable and knows our industry well and keeps up to date with changes. This gives her insights that other solicitors we have dealt with do not have.”