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We support clients across primary, acute, community, residential and social care including mental health, special education and children’s services. Our award winning healthcare team is well known for the innovative advice they offer on a wide range of healthcare matters from significant transactional advice to complex high value medical claims and healthcare regulatory advice, inward investment and NHS capital procurement, PFI’s, PPP’s and other healthcare outsourcings.

CMS are committed to driving development and growth in the sector and are members of key industry associations. We provide exceptional, tailored, expert and appropriately priced advice to a wide range of health and social care clients relying on our deep knowledge of the sector.

Long-standing clients include Nuffield Health, Spire Healthcare, NFA Group, Barchester Healthcare, Welltower, Care UK, HCA Healthcare, Primary Health Properties, General Optical Council, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, Civitas Social Housing and BMI Healthcare.
 

Laing Buisson Award 2020

 
HI Award Logo 2018

 

 
Legal 500 UK Top Tier 2020

 

 

 

"We always find them brilliant. They're very commercial, hugely responsive and know their onions."

Chambers, 2024

"The team always gets to a solution that meets all our needs in a timely and professional manner."

Chambers, 2024

"CMS' multi-disciplinary practice is spread across multiple offices and offers 'strong expertise' in high-value M&A transactional advice, international inward investment and NHS capital procurement, PFIs and PPP and other healthcare outsourcings."

The Legal 500, 2019

"We always find them brilliant. They're very commercial, hugely responsive and know their onions."

Chambers, 2024

"The team always gets to a solution that meets all our needs in a timely and professional manner."

Chambers, 2024

"CMS' multi-disciplinary practice is spread across multiple offices and offers 'strong expertise' in high-value M&A transactional advice, international inward investment and NHS capital procurement, PFIs and PPP and other healthcare outsourcings."

The Legal 500, 2019
13/01/2020
Highlights of our experience in Healthcare
Spire Healthcare on a wide range of transactions, including the disposal of two cancer centres and the establishment of a partnership with Genesis Care. We also advised on a coverage dispute with its...
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15/04/2024
New and improved, or is it? – The CQC’s Single Assessment Framework
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Out with the old, in with the new – what do healthcare and social care...
And so it has begun – the rollout of the long-awaited CQC’s new assessment regime is underway.   Having commenced in the South of England and working region by region, registered providers in London...
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Scottish QOCS case law for 2023 – the lessons learned so far
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