Hospital and Health Law

With qualifications in science, nursing and other health-related disciplines, or first hand legal experience inhouse at major hospitals, our team is well placed to offer practical insight and experience across a wide range of matters involving healthcare providers, including:

• Medical Negligence: Defending medical negligence matters.
• Complaint Resolution: Assisting with the resolution of complaints made against healthcare providers.
• Coronial Inquests: Appearing in a wide range of coronial inquests.
• Regulation: Defending healthcare providers facing regulatory hearings, investigations and reviews being undertaken by the regulatory bodies.
• Privacy: All privacy matters including those involving medical records and communication between the treating team and others.
• Medicare Reviews: Assisting in Medicare audits and compliance activity relating to alleged misuse or incorrect use of the Medicare system, and examination of any variance in Medicare billing statistics.
• Clinical Trials: Defending claims by clinical trial participants against those who sponsor or conduct clinical trials, and advising on regulatory requirements for running clinical trials in Australia.
• Employment Law: We have extensive experience in the employment, discrimination and work health and safety fields.
• Statutory Liability: We have experience successfully defending unintentional breaches of legislation including workplace health and safety legislation across jurisdictions and in relation to investigations arising in connection with COVID-19.
• General Advice: Providing general advice to hospitals, clinics, laboratories, medical practitioners and numerous allied health professionals including relating to patient complaints, consent, insurance, medical procedures, implications of privacy legislation, risk management procedures, policy reviews, the impact of Right to Information legislation, and services agreements.

The Checkup is a medico-legal podcast providing a regular dose of all the latest happenings in the healthcare industry. Together with a range of industry experts, legal professionals, authors, cyber specialists and more, we tackle some of the big issues, and discuss what’s happening in the work of healthcare – now and in the future.