Hospitals & Healthcare

The Hospitals & Healthcare Group is an all-island multidisciplinary team providing industry focused, full service, specialist legal advice to the health and social care sectors. We have a strong tradition of representing major acute and specialist hospitals, clinics and other service providers from the public, independent not-for-profit and private sectors in high profile, urgent and complex work. We represent third level institutions focusing on healthcare, education and research as well as health insurers, professional indemnity insurers and indemnifiers.

Experience

  • A Dublin hospital

    on the demerger of its Children's Hospital and the transfer of acute in patient paediatric services to the Children's Hospital Group entity to be established by primary legislation.

  • The Rotunda Hospital

    on the sale to Virtus /Sims IVF of Human Assisted Reproduction Ireland.

  • A variety of hospitals

    on employment related matters.

  • Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital

    in the successful defence of a large cohort of High Court Claims arising out of historic obstetric practice of Symphysiotomy.

  • A Psychiatric Hospital

    on the successful defence of High Court Judicial Review proceedings involving the interpretation of the Mental Health Act 2001, the Constitution of Ireland and Human Rights Law.

  • St. James Hospital

    on procurement processes, drafting procurement and contract documents, and advice on an upgrade of the picture archiving communications systems and related radiology information systems, nursing agency services.

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