Healthcare Over the past twenty five years the Beauchamps Healthcare Group has established itself as one of the leading advisers to healthcare service providers. The Group has extensive experience in advising and acting for healthcare service providers (both for individuals and for institutions), regulators, representative bodies and pharmaceutical companies and a wide range of businesses and organisations involved in the Healthcare sector.
We are the leading experts in providing niche legal advices to healthcare service providers nationwide. We provide an all encompassing claims handling and risk management legal service.
Team Profile
Endorsements
Chambers Global 2010 and 2009 Beauchamps Listings:
- Healthcare is another strong suit, and unit head Aisling Gannon is arguably the most experienced lawyer in the Irish market when it comes to this. “She gives you absolute confidence because she knows exactly what she is doing and leaves no stone unturned in her efforts on behalf of clients.” (2010)
- Aisling Gannon leads the firm’s healthcare unit, and is viewed as an “intelligent and shrewd operator.”. This firm specialises in medical negligence and other insurance issues involving healthcare entities, and is praised for the dedication of its lawyers and the service they provide: “It’s in client service that they stand out,” enthused one client; “they always keep us up-to-date and stay in regular contact.” The group has advised hospitals and insurers on appropriate policies regarding infection control, internal and external reviews and other issues. Aisling Gannon is head of the firm’s healthcare unit and undertakes a large amount of insurance work. She is a conscientious lawyer who is committed to her clients, one of whom said of her: “She’s always available and never leaves a stone unturned.” (2009)
Legal 500 2010 and 2009 Beauchamps Listings:
- Clients single out healthcare head Aisling Gannon as ‘resourceful’ and as ‘leaving no stone unturned in her efforts on behalf of clients’. The firm advised the Health Insurance Authority in judicial review proceedings arising out of the repeal of the risk equalisation scheme at the Supreme Court. (2010)
- Beauchamps Solicitors‘ leaves no stone unturned to achieve the best possible result’. Aisling Gannon leads a ‘ specialist team’ that has particular strength in defending medical negligence claims. Clients include obstetric units, GPs, teaching hospitals and health boards. (2009)
Areas of expertise include:
- Defending medical / professional negligence actions
- Litigation & dispute resolution, claims handling, injunctions and judicial reviews
- Disciplinary hearings – providing representation at Medical Council hearings, An Bord Altranais and the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland hearings
- Coroner’s Inquests – providing assistance in preparing for and providing representation at Coroner’s Inquests and statutory inquiries
- On-call telephone advisory services including consent issues, ethical issues and confidentiality matters
- Health crisis management including assistance in formulating a structured and timely approach to the crisis arising, and legally advising on managing the process to conclusion
- Wardship applications –handling emergency applications as they arise and working with the Wardship Office and families in respect of consent applications to progress matters in the patient’s best interest
- Clinical protocols – assisting and reviewing / drafting hospital guidelines and advising in relation to their implementation
- Complaints handling policies and terms of reference considerations – assisting service providers in complaints handling, relevant guideline reviews and consideration of the terms of reference when necessary
- Advising healthcare employers on employment related claims – including bullying and stress related matters
- Standards, regulations and legislation - providing advices to Healthcare service providers in relation to their obligations to regulatory bodies (HIQA, HSE, etc.), to practitioners in relation to professional standards (RCPI, ICGP, An Bord Altranais, etc.) and providing updates on relevant legislation
- Freedom of information / data protection – advising on the application of the Freedom of Information and Data Protection Acts
- Infection control / MRSA – providing expert advice / responses and assistance to infection control management issues to include MRSA matters and other hospital acquired infections
E-mail
|
