Healthcare Governance

Strong governance for a healthier future: expert legal services for the health sector

In today’s complex healthcare environment, effective governance is essential to ensure compliance, accountability, and operational excellence. We understand the unique challenges of the health sector and offer pragmatic, strategic, and future-focused legal support to ensure your organisation thrives while meeting its legal obligations.

We work with clients across the health sector from Integrated Care Boards to hospitals, primary care, health startups and academic institutions.

Our specialised legal services are designed to help healthcare organisations navigate the intricate regulatory landscape, manage risks, and build frameworks that support sustainable and ethical practices.

Main Areas Of Practice


Regulatory Compliance

Stay on top of national regulations and standards such as the well-led framework and CQC Fundamental Standards.

Board and Leadership Advisory

Develop governance structures and policies that promote transparency and accountability at all levels of your organisation.

Stakeholder Engagement

Apply proven methods of maintaining productive relationships with key stakeholders, easing the passage of organisational change and service reconfiguration.

Risk Management

Identify and mitigate operational, financial, and reputational risks with tailored legal strategies.

Data Privacy and Security

Ensure compliance with data protection laws while safeguarding patient information and leveraging the value of big data.

Policy Development

Draft and implement clear, compliant, and effective internal policies for governance and decision-making.

Raising Concerns – Freedom to Speak Up

Work with you to facilitate a culture of openness where everyone feels safe and confident to express concerns.

Investigations and Inquiries

Give a comprehensive and insightful account of your organisation when it comes under scrutiny.

Clinical Governance

Support for ensuring quality standards in patient care, from risk assessments to performance monitoring.

Our clients


At Blake Morgan, we are proud of our strong reputation in both the private and public healthcare markets, where we act for many of the largest providers of health and social care.

"Blake Morgan is able to provide decisive advice to complex legal matters or dilemmas."
- Chambers and Partners, 2026


"Blake Morgan provides excellent service."
- Chambers and Partners, 2025


"They have very strong healthcare expertise."
- Chambers and Partners, 2022


"Have really enjoyed working with you all over the last 4 months. I’ve worked with a lot of lawyers in my time across a number of industries and can say that it’s been an absolute pleasure working with the Blake Morgan team – I have been impressed by your knowledge, the way you’ve guided us and kept us honest whilst showing some refreshing pragmatism – quite a rare combination in my experience of legal advisors."
- A client, Jan 2021


Awards, Accolades and Accreditations


Our Experts


Eve
Piffaretti
Partner

Cardiff

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David
Hill
Partner

Reading

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Chris
Hardy
Legal Director

Manchester

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BM Insights


Events

We are delighted to invite you to join us for our Information Governance webinar which is part of our Public Sector Insights Forum. The webinar will take place on Tuesday...

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Events

Following the success of our previous session in exploring the local authority leisure agency model in June, this follow-up event will take the discussion a step further.

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Case Studies

Blake Morgan remains one of the most trusted advisers for the NHS on the most high-profile and important commercial and policy matters, including supporting NHS England on the Voluntary Pricing...

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Articles

The first Court of Protection judgment to be published in the Welsh language. Hopefully, the first of many.

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Articles

Y dyfarniad cyntaf gan y Llys Gwarchod i gael ei chyhoeddi yn y Gymraeg. Gan obaith, dyma’r cyntaf o lawer.

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Events

We were delighted to host our Regulation of Fertility Treatment webinar which was part of our Public Sector Insights Forum. 

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