Dental surgeries, pharmacy businesses, and NHS trusts regularly seek the advice of the ‘excellent’ healthcare team at Sintons LLP. Practice head Amanda McCabe is a seasoned healthcare specialist with a broad practice that spans corporate and commercial issues, disputes, care structures, and contentious mandates.Kathryn Riddell advises NHS trusts on issues relating to patient confidentiality, safeguarding, and consent; she also represents clients in Court of Protection proceedings, Coroner’s inquests, and clinical negligence claims. Chloe Dinsdale takes point on commercial matters for public sector clients, including NHS trusts, primary care networks, and other healthcare providers, with particular experience advising on governance issues for NHS organisations. Victoria Armstrong left the team in August 2023.
Testimonials
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‘There are a number of individuals with a breadth of knowledge most specifically in public sector, NHS and general practice. Giving the right level of guidance in a timely fashion, they are approachable and friendly and willing to help.’
‘One of our main contacts is Chloe Dinsdale, she is always friendly, supportive and provides accurate and timely advice and support, sometimes at short notice. She is knowledgeable about the company and our environment and working climate which fosters a good working relationship.’
Key clients
- Community Based Care Health Federation Limited (CBC)
- Teams Medical Practice
Work highlights
- Advising Community Based Care Health Limited in relation to the provision of an Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) Hub for the local region as part of the NHS’s winter resilience planning.
- Advising The Newcastle upon Hospitals NHSFT on a joint Supreme Court appeal case concerning a reporting restriction order protecting the anonymity of hospital clinicians involved in the care of a child, now deceased, who had been the subject of end-of-life proceedings.