Health & social care

Emergency advice

If a patient’s life is at stake – or your organisation’s reputation is suddenly at risk – you’re likely to need immediate access to legal advisers who’ve dealt with these sorts of problems before.

Capsticks has a team of experienced healthcare lawyers available around the clock, able to give you practical advice and help whenever you need it.

Our service covers all aspects of healthcare law, including consent to treatment cases, inquests, press injunctions and suspected fraud. Often, there is a serious risk of damaging media coverage of you or your company. We can help you manage such press interest. This can range from simply liaising with your press officer to taking full-scale court action for an injunction stopping publication of a story.

We have helped clients in cases involving (among other things):

lack of legal capacity
Children Act applications and orders
complaints advice
confidentiality issues
consent to treatment
religious objection to treatment
the retention of human organs
asylum seekers
withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment
restriction or deprivation of liberty

We have also developed checklists for assessing “Advance decisions“, “Best interests“ and “Lasting powers of attorney“ for patients 18 or above, which are available for download to the right.

Call us for emergency advice: 020 8780 4860

You can contact our healthcare law advisory team any time of the day or night by dialling 020 8780 4860. Depending on whether you phone in or out of office hours, you will either be routed directly to a specialised healthcare lawyer or, alternatively, an operator will take your contact details. These will then be passed to a Capsticks healthcare specialist, who will immediately return your call.

If you’re not already a Capsticks client, you may register free of charge for this service. Registration enables us to verify calls. A Capsticks partner will be happy to explain the service and how we can best tailor it for your organisation. Contact us on 020 8780 2211.