Health

Partner

Oliver is a commercial and partnerships specialist who spends most of his time advising GP practices. He can help with all aspects of the partnership relationship, from putting in place your GP partnership deed, to advising you on its terms, to dealing with disputes between partners.

He also advises on joint venture arrangements between practices, federations, co-operatives, clusters and has dealt with 35 mergers of GP practices in the past few years. Oliver can also advice on the terms of NHS contracts. Oliver has been acting for GPs practices for over 11 years and has been involved in drawing up or amending over 200 GP partnership deeds.

Meeting Your Needs

Like all of the VWV Primary Healthcare team, Oliver keeps up to date with the GP profession and is an avid reader of GP trade mags such as Pulse and GP News. Oliver keeps abreast of developments in the sector and writes and lectures frequently on legal issues affecting doctors and dentists.

What Others Say

'"An expert in advising GPs on a wide range of matters, including partnership deeds, joint ventures between practices and partner disputes." - Chambers & Partners

"He's a really impressive practitioner" and "a great asset to the firm" who "talks our language and ensures the right chemistry with the client." - Chambers & Partners

"Oliver is approachable, knowledgeable, fair, confident and helpful (...). He is just wonderful to work with." - Chambers & Partners

"A pleasure to work with." - Legal 500

"Oliver Pool is very committed, always accessible and makes a difficult situation better and manageable and is steering us through very effectively. He is definetely on our Christmas card list this year." - Kate Francis, Air Balloon Surgery

Oliver is the only solicitor sitting on the healthcare committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.