Who we are
Blake Dawson is home to Australia’s leading dedicated Health & Aged Care practice. Our longstanding involvement in the health and aged care sectors has given us a sophisticated understanding of the legal, political and commercial dynamics facing organisations today. We put this experience and insight to work for our clients, and we are proud of our record in helping our clients mitigate risk, achieve commercial outcomes and plan appropriately for change.
What our clients say
Our Health and Aged Care practice is ranked number one firm in Australia in Medical Negligence - Best Lawyers Australia, 2009, while our Brisbane and Sydney offices are also ranked number one firm in Health and Aged Care - Best Lawyers Australia, 2009.
Our perspective
Our long association with leading private and public sector organisations in the health and aged care sectors enables us to anticipate emerging legal issues and apply specialist expertise to address those issues. We help our clients plan for the future, manage risk and implement commercial and strategic solutions.
We also understand that participants in the health and aged care sectors have diverse requirements, so we work to find individual solutions for our clients’ unique needs.
Services
Blake Dawson’s Health & Aged Care team is a national multi-disciplinary team. We provide a full range of services to the health and aged care sectors. Part of our regular communication with our clients is through the informative Health & Aged Care Law Update and the Health & Aged Care Law Alert. We advise in all matters affecting the sectors, including:
- Acquisitions and divestments
- Financing and capital raising
- Privatisation and outsourcing
- Regulatory compliance issues
- Indirect and direct tax
- Employment, industrial relations and OHS
- Corporate and clinical governance
- Infrastructure-related transactions
- Development of by-laws and other operational policies
- Medical appointments
- Health care quality and complaints
- Coronial law and practice
- Regulation and discipline of health care professionals
- Information technology, intellectual property and commercialisation
- Private health insurance and Medicare entitlements
- Privacy, confidentiality and access to records
- Clinical trials and human research
- Patients' rights, competence and consent
- Insurance, medical indemnity, dispute resolution and risk management
- Leasing and property.